All the insider dirty laundry is getting aired now that Alfred P. Newman and Dr. Mengele are checking out.
I just heard a story on NPR regarding the illegal wiretap program. Apparently, Cheney knew it was ruled to be illegal by a foriegn intelligence court for three months, but continued the program. The asst Attorney general and the next five successors in the chain of command under him all threatened to resign in protest by a certain date if the program wasn't haulted. That went on for three months. The day before they were to resign, Cheney finally told Bush, who remained in the dark the entire time, and the program was abruptly haulted. Bush probably would have been impeached had the resignations taken place (you can imagine the blowback from having the entire leadership of your DOJ, except for Speedy Gonzales, of course, resign because your're breaking the law).
We know the results this administration produced were fucked up beyond measure. Now we're finding out the details of just how fucked it up it was on the inside.