[DRB]

This is awesome.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16443186/

The late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist took a powerful sedative during his first decade on the Supreme Court and grew so dependent on it that he became delusional and tried to escape from a hospital in his pajamas when he stopped taking the drug in 1981, according to newly released FBI files.

Doctors interviewed by the FBI told agents that when the associate justice stopped taking the drug, he suffered paranoid delusions. One doctor said Rehnquist thought he heard voices outside his hospital room plotting against him and had "bizarre ideas and outrageous thoughts," including imagining "a CIA plot against him" and "seeming to see the design patterns on the hospital curtains change configuration."

This part I found very interesting:

President Ronald Reagan nominated him as chief justice in 1986 -- the Justice Department enlisted the FBI to find out what witnesses lined up by Senate Democrats were prepared to say.

 

[Echo]

Cool, finally something that isn't Shrub's fault.

Actually it probably is his fault somehow. Or Cheney's.

 

[DRB]

Cool, finally something that isn't Shrub's fault.

Actually it probably is his fault somehow. Or Cheney's.

I'm hurt that you didn't read the whole thing... because you would have found this

In 1986, the FBI files show, Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the FBI to interview witnesses who might testify about allegations that Rehnquist had "challenged" blacks waiting in line to vote in Phoenix in 1962. Rehnquist was a legal adviser to the local Republican Party at the time.

Thurmond's request was relayed to the FBI by John R. Bolton, who was then an assistant attorney general. Although an FBI official warned that the bureau might be accused of "intimidating the Democrats' witnesses," Bolton approved the request and wrote that he would "accept responsibility should concerns be raised about the role of the FBI."

Interesting how that worked out.

 

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All evil is related to the Shrub.

 

[ohio]

Isn't cronyism and intimidation the hallmark of a free society?