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5 Jun, 2007 4:45 pm
... Comey was the AG. The White House reauthorized the domestic spying program anyway. After Ashcroft got better, the program was reauthorized
with the AG's approval. Allegedly there were ... rights implications of his policies (he said they were aiding the enemy) Ashcroft also spoke
to NPR about his book, and when asked directly about the incident at the hospital ... not part of his calculus. So, no, I don't think John Ashcroft was doing the Constitution any favors that night in intensive care, but PD Dude ...
24 Apr, 2008 12:00 am
... followed. But this will give you an idea of the tone: ME: First off, Mr. Ashcroft, I'd like to apologize for the rudeness of some of my
fellow students. It was uncalled for--we ... among the tortures listed was the "water treatment," which we nowadays call waterboarding... ASHCROFT: (interrupting) This is a speech, not a question. I don't mind, but it's not ... over someone's face and pouring water down their throat...
ASHCROFT: (interrupting, red-faced, shouting) Pouring! Pouring! Did you hear what she ...
23 May 4:05 am
... 550 U.S. 544 (2007). Twombly established stricter fact-based pleading requirements for antitrust cases. Ashcroft, however, makes explicitly
clear that the pleading requirements specified in Twombly, and amplified in Ashcroft itself, apply ... , does not permit the pleading of the
bare allegations of a cause of action to survive a motion to dismiss. The practical significance of the Ashcroft decision remains to be seen. I
can say, however, that it sure seems different than the rules that have applied ...
25 Feb, 2008 6:39 pm
... Christopher Christie, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, awarded a contract said to be worth $27 million or more to Ashcroft to monitor a
medical device maker that had entered a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors. ... Christie, who ... to explain why the services his firm contracted to provide are
worth a paycheck that may exceed $27 million. [more...] Ashcroft attended a September news conference in Newark where Christie named him as
monitor for Zimmer Holdings Inc., of Warsaw, ...
15 May, 2007 3:13 pm
... White House's NSA surveillance program -- so much so that a deputy refused to reauthorize the warrantless spying while Ashcroft was in the
hospital. Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he refused to ... the Justice Department's signoff, allowing it to operate for about three
weeks without concurrence on whether it was legal. Comey, Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and other Justice Department officials at one
point considered resigning, Comey ...
20 May, 2007 2:12 am
... evidently Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Counsel (and present AG) Alberto Gonzalez raced to the hospital bedside of Ashcroft to
attempt to reauthorize the illegal wiretaps that they were conducting outside of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). This despite the fact that James Comey was acting AG in
light of Ashcroft's surgery and hospitalization (and opposed to the extrajudicial surveillance). Comey heard about the pending visit, and raced
...
29 Jul, 2007 12:09 am
... by a host of different agencies, that seems right in this context. I'd like to examine it from a different angle: Was John Ashcroft ever
opposed to data-mining? If not, how could that be the basis of the need to go to the hospital and twist ... conduct a thorough predeployment legal review. In other words, review in
advance what kinds of things are being sought. So Ashcroft was never opposed to data-mining. He was concerned with how it was to be
accomplished. The only way I can see to reconcile the ...
11 Mar, 2008 9:21 am
... that he be hired, for a very lucrative contract? Sanchez described the contract as a "sweetheart deal" in which "Mr. Ashcroft was
selected" - by New Jersey U.S. attorney Chris Christie - "with no public notice and no bidding. Ashcroft: ... my monitorship will cost in tax
dollars. Tom Feeney (R., Fl.): It's fundamentally wrong to question the credentials of Ashcroft, who, because of his record at the DOJ in
prosecuting large health-care companies, is perhaps the most qualified individual in the ...
24 Apr, 2008 12:42 pm
... on the topic of torture is best left to the comics, not someone who authorized the real thing. It turns out Ashcroft was on a roll. On
Tuesday, he engaged in a rather testy exchange with an audience member at Knox College in Illinois. The audience member wrote a first-hand account of what went down on MyDD. In a
nutshell, Ashcroft asserts that the difference between the waterboarding committed by U.S. interrogators and the waterboarding Japanese
soldiers were convicted and ...
19 May, 2007 11:01 pm
... he is the wrong person to be attorney general of the United States. Joe Biden: ...in my view, Senator Ashcroft has demonstrated repeatedly
bad judgment, at a minimum, on matters relating to enforcement of civil rights and the attitude ... contraceptives, citing concerns that funding certain contraceptives was equivalent to
funding abortifacients. Sen. Maria Cantwell: Senator Ashcroft's record of making inflammatory statements regarding reproductive rights and
desegregation, his apparent disregard ...
9 Jan, 2008 10:21 am
... . Here's the NYT story. Last year U.S. Attorney Chris Christie (pictured, left) named Ashcroft the government-appointed monitor to Zimmer
Holdings, one of five medical-device manufacturers that recently struck deferred prosecution agreements ... monitors to police settlements with large companies. Apparently, aides to AG
Mukasey were concerned about the appearance of favoritism. In addition to Ashcroft, the four other monitors appointed were David Samson (Smith
& Nephew), a former New Jersey AG; ...
20 May 4:17 am
... and detained thousands of Arab Muslim men as part of its September 11th investigation. Furthermore, he alleged that Ashcroft, Mueller, and
others knowingly, willfully and maliciously agreed to subject Iqbal to harsh conditions of confinement as a ... first and fifth amendments and without asserting any legitimate
penalogical interest. Finally, he alleged that Ashcroft was the policy's "principal architect" and Mueller was "instrumental" in its adoption
and execution. The federal officials asserted ...
24 Feb, 2008 6:48 am
... , Feb. 23rd reported: The House Judiciary Committee disclosed Friday that it was considering subpoenaing former Attorney General John Ashcroft to testify about a contract worth at least $28 million that was steered to his consulting firm by the Justice Department. * * * ... of the no-bid,
18-month monitoring contract, worth $28 million to $52 million, that was awarded to Mr. Ashcroft's consulting firm to oversee a settlement
between the Justice Department and Zimmer Holdings, a large medical supply ...
12 Dec, 2008 8:08 am
... we don't see the world the way someone like, oh, John Ashcroft does. Why, I often wondered, did my government feel it appropriate to detain
... capture a sense of gravity. It's not literal. At least I thought it wasn't. Ashcroft thinks otherwise. His comparison of captives in Gitmo
to captured German soldiers in World ... and fought on the battlefield as he was told to do. There is no comparison with the "war" Ashcroft
speaks about. Some will argue that the soldiers in a jihad don't wear uniforms, so ...
5 Sep 5:58 am
... today in The Los Angeles Times. Today in The New York Times, John Schwartz reports that "Panel Rules Against Ashcroft in Detention Case."
Carrie Johnson of The Washington Post reports that "Court Allows Lawsuit Against Ashcroft; Former Official's Bid for Immunity In Ex-Detainee's
Case Is Rejected." Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that "Ashcroft can be sued over jailing 'witnesses.'" The Associated Press
reports that "Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case ...
17 May, 2007 11:31 am
... at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 10, 2004. Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital, struck with a life-threatening case of
pancreatitis. Deputy Attorney General James B. ... Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "And [I] got a call from Attorney General Ashcroft's chief of staff telling me that he had gotten a call." So ... White House officials, Andrew Card and Alberto Gonzales, were headed to
Ashcroft's hospital bed, despite the instructions of his wife that there would be no ...
25 Nov, 2007 9:46 am
... the biggest payouts reported for a federal monitor. Disclosed in SEC filings, the arrangement calls for Zimmer Holdings of Indiana to pay Ashcroft Group Consulting Services an average monthly fee between $1.5 million and $2.9 million. The figure ... 000 a month for expenses including private
airfare, lodging and meals. Mark Corallo, still doing press relations for Ashcroft defends the fee. More... The spokesman, Mark Corallo, called
the fee structure "consistent with any other large-scale monitoring ...
27 Nov, 2007 4:16 pm
... it's expected to earn somewhere between $28 million and $52 million for 18 months of work. Doing what? Ashcroft is the government-appointed
monitor to Zimmer Holdings, one of five medical-device manufacturers that recently struck deferred prosecution ... practitioners are being hired to conduct internal investigations,
serve as corporate monitors and arbitrate disputes. In addition to Ashcroft, the four other monitors appointed are David Samson (Smith &
Nephew), a former New Jersey AG; David ...
9 Jun, 2008 8:01 pm
... Circuit allowed the suit to proceed based on nothing more than the mere possibility that Mueller and Ashcroft were involved in formulating
the policy in question. The government contends that by failing to state when the alleged conduct took place, ... appropriate following a status conference in late April, where an
attorney for another defendant revealed the existence of a memo Ashcroft sent to subordinates outlining how the classification system for Arab
and Muslim detainees would be carried out ...
5 May 6:19 am
... warrantless wiretapping and against torture? How does the Justice Department bring charges against officials who work for the government? Ashcroft argues that in the financial context, criminal prosecutions may not be the best solution, because of collateral effects ... House advisers should not
be involved in the grim details of interrogations." One thing is for certain: Attorney General Ashcroft is right to remind us that the mere
fact that government controls certain entities does not mean that ...
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