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12 Jun 2017, 10:04 pm
It would be surprising if it did not also forge a permanent bond with Mueller.It was Comey, as Deputy Attorney General, and Mueller, then head of the FBI, who together confronted White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in the hospital bedroom of then-seriously ill Attorney General John Ashcroft in a successful attempt to block the White House from implementing a surveillance protocol Gonzales and, tentatively, President Bush favored.The protocol was temporarily stalled. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 9:40 am
Qatar has hired former Attorney General John Ashcroft and his law firm to lobby the U.S. government and evaluate its anti-terrorism financing efforts, according to the AP. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 7:38 pm
This morning’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing was ostensibly on the topic of FISA Section 702, but given the witnesses before the Committee—Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe—the hearing featured a fair amount of questioning on the subject of the Russia investigation. [read post]
26 May 2017, 1:15 pm
In 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft first issued memos directing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges against people accused of federal drug crimes. [read post]
23 May 2017, 4:32 am
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18 May 2017, 8:00 am
The new Justice Department policy was quick to cancel the Obama administration’s attempts to end harsh sentencing strategies and actually restores some of the language from a 2003 memo written by then Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
13 May 2017, 4:42 am
This was the protocol under Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
3 May 2017, 5:02 am
On December 31, 2014, Judge John Gleeson issued a Memorandum and Order (the “Order”) remanding Nelson’s case to the Commissioner for the calculation and award of benefits. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 11:30 am
This embed will serve content from youtube.com I worked on Capitol Hill on Sept. 11, and I was in the room when Attorney General John Ashcroft first presented the Patriot Act to congressional leadership. [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 10:40 am
When Comey has nothing to lose and he has a story to tell, here's what he sounds like: SCHUMER: There have been media reports describing a dramatic visit by Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card to the hospital bed of John Ashcroft in March 2004, after you, as acting attorney general, decided not to authorize a classified program. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 4:22 am
So, too, was John Ashcroft informed by his conservatism in writing a memo 10 years earlier urging his prosecutors to charge the most serious provable offense. [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 4:34 am
Mieke Eoyang and Gary Ashcroft posted an excerpt from their paper, “Why Electronic Surveillance Reform is Necessary. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 1:12 pm
As recounted by Politico in January, Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, expanded the number of White House officials permitted to contact the Justice Department on non-national security members from four to 417; his second attorney general, Alberto Gonzalez, further increased the number to 895 (according to findings by Senate Judiciary Committee member Sheldon Whitehouse, a former U.S. attorney). [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
It was the product of their new attorney general, John Ashcroft, who told Congress he wanted a “comprehensive, coordinated, Government-wide, aggressive, properly resourced, and sustained effort” to deal with “the problem of unauthorized disclosures. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 7:56 am
The defendants included high-level officials in the Department of Justice (DOJ) such as Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller, and Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar, as well various detention officials. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 10:26 am
Ashcroft in 2003 and in Islamic American Relief Agency v. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 7:22 am
John Ashcroft — not a likely candidate for civil rights hero — defied White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez from his sickbed, refusing to re-authorize a domestic spying program. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 5:27 pm
Prior to his inauguration, President Trump threatened companies considering establishing plants outside the U.S. with a 35% tariff on their exports to the U.S. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 11:38 am
" Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that "Supreme Court Appears Split on Whether Immigrants Captured in 9/11 Sweeps Can Sue Officials; Plaintiffs held in Brooklyn detention center under harsh conditions allege violations of constitutional rights by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, other government officials. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 2:06 pm
Chief Justice John Roberts was equally skeptical. [read post]
