Wednesday, March 29, 2006


Historians will remember White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who resigned today, for pushing hard for the illegal, warrantless NSA domestic spying program and for selling the Iraq war to Congress, the media, and the American people...

From "Ron Suskind's as-told-to account of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's stormy tenure, The Price of Loyalty:

"Go get me Andy Card," Bush said to one of the Secret Service agents. Card, the designee as chief of staff, entered from an adjoining room . . . Bush looked impatiently at Card, hard-eyed. "You're the chief of staff. You think you're up to getting us some cheeseburgers?"
Card nodded. No one laughed. He all but raced out of the room
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