Palace Revolt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek/
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet
battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they
paid a price for it. A NEWSWEEK investigation.
By Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas
Newsweek
Feb. 6, 2006 issue - James Comey, a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor
who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart, resigned as deputy attorney
general in the summer of 2005. The press and public hardly noticed.
Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice
Department, contained all the predictable, if heartfelt, appreciations.
But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. Comey thanked
"people who came to my office, or my home, or called my cell phone late
at night, to quietly tell me when I was about to make a mistake; they
were the people committed to getting it right-and to doing the right
thing-whatever the price. These people," said Comey, "know who they
are. Some of them did pay a price for their commitment to right, but
they wouldn't have it any other way."
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