Didn’t want to say it aloud but that’s what I was thinking. Hopefully it’s low blood sugar.
U.S. Attorney General Mukasey Collapses During Speech (Update2)
By Jeff Bliss
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech in Washington tonight and was taken away on a gurney by emergency personnel.
Mukasey, 67, slumped at the lectern and fell to the floor as he neared the end of a speech to the Federalist Society. Several people gathered around him to offer aid, and emergency workers arrived.
Members of the audience, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, formed a human wall so people could not view the attorney general as he was taken away. A member of the audience offered a prayer for Mukasey from the lectern and told everyone to go home.
Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, became attorney general in November 2007, replacing Alberto Gonzales, who resigned after a congressional investigation into allegations he politicized the department.
In his speech, the attorney general defended the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism strategy against what he termed ``relentless criticism.’’
To contact the reporter on this story: Jeff Bliss in Washington jbliss@bloomberg.net.
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