Buzzflash interviews John Dean on Attorney General John Ashcroft...the genesis of the interview is Dean's column here, discussing whether lying about wmd is an impeachable offense.

Today, we are interviewing Dean --a noted author, political and legal analyst, and FindLaw columnist -- on the efforts of John Ashcroft to create a de facto policy of prosecuting Americans for disclosing government information, even if it is not classified. It is another example of Ashcroft, on behalf of Bush and Cheney, seeking to turn America into a Soviet style state, where an elite group of rulers control all the information that belongs to the American people.

Dean's column comes at an ironically timely moment. Right now, the White House is furiously trying to spin its way out of a traitorous act of betrayal, exposing a CIA operative who specialized in tracking legal and illegal trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. Ashcroft is no doubt spending time with his staff trying to find inventive ways to AVOID holding anyone at the White House accountable. At the same time the Department of Justice is probably conspiring to let an act of treason go unprosecuted at the White House, it is also, according to Dean, trying to figure out ways for sending American to jail for disclosing or transferring information that belongs to the American people, not the Bush Cartel.

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