If you were around in 1973, the Washington Post was the lead paper (Woodword/Bernstien) on Watergate. The reason this editorial is so significant to me, is that it may be THE “what did he know, and when know it” question. A question John Dean asked during Watergate and the question that was the end for Nixon. The WAPO has finally re-read their own editorials and maybe a moment of clarity hit them. That because of the “national terror threat” that oozes from the pours of Bush and Cheney, they were part of the problem, an enabler for ANYTHING Bush/Cheney wanted to do. The Comey testimony must of been that moment and they have declared…enough is enough.

 “The president would like to make this unpleasant controversy disappear behind the national security curtain. That cannot be allowed to happen.

“The WAPO is late to party, but I’m glad they are finally here…this moves the debate towards Impeachment, and to the WAPO’s credit, they are once again leading the charge.

IT DOESN’T much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General John D. Ashcroft’s hospital room before the Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004. It matters enormously, however, whether the president was willing to have his White House aides try to strong-arm the gravely ill attorney general into overruling the Justice Department’s legal views. It matters enormously whether the president, once that mission failed, was willing nonetheless to proceed with a program whose legality had been called into question by the Justice Department. That is why Mr. Bush’s response to questions about the program yesterday was so inadequate.