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12 Jul 2011, 1:48 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Haynes II (Department of Defense general counsel), and John Yoo (deputy assistant attorney general in the OLC). [read post]
18 May 2009, 10:06 am
The lawyers are: [F]ormer White House Legal Counsel attorneys John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Stephen Bradbury; former Attorney Generals Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft and Michael Mukasey; former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney David Addington, Alice Fisher, William Haynes II, Douglas Feith and Timothy Flanigan The complaints are available at… [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 11:41 am
That’s the question that came to mind while reading this morning’s reports that the DOJ — in advance of today’s testimony by former AG John Ashcroft regarding the circumstances of a lucrative, no-bid monitoring contract awarded him by New Jersey U.S. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 5:01 am by Chuck Rosenberg
In 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft properly recused himself from a criminal investigation involving the unauthorized disclosure of the identity of a CIA officer. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 4:02 pm
The court just granted cert in a case in which plaintiffâ€â [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 5:14 pm
In 2002, the FBI and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft described Hatfill, a former Army scientist, as a â [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 8:48 am
FBI director Robert Mueller offered testimony before the House yesterday that sharply conflicted with AG Gonzales's testimony about that crazy 2004 confrontation in former AG John Ashcroft’s hospital room. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 4:08 pm
The few people inside the former administration who knew about the order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer David Addington, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a young, and then unknown, lawyer inside the Justice Department named John Yoo . [read post]
2 May 2012, 11:43 am by Lyle Denniston
   In addition, the Circuit Court said its decision was required by a Supreme Court ruling last year in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, barring a constitutional lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft over the roundup of terrorism suspects after the September 11 terrorist attacks. [read post]
17 May 2007, 4:49 pm
If you were NSA General Counsel, how would you react if the President asked you to engage in conduct that is on its face criminal; if you learned that Jack Goldsmith and John Ashcroft of all officials, concluded that there was no legal way around the statutory restriction and refused to be associated with it; and if the only justification the President offered you for obeying his order was that he was adopting David Addington's, uh, shall we say idiosyncratic, view… [read post]
20 May 2009, 11:52 am
Iqbal, which concerned whether current and former federal officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, are entitled to qualified immunity against allegations they knew of or condoned racial and religious discrimination against individuals detained in the wake of the September 11 attacks. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 2:04 am
Attorney Christopher Christie told a House subcommittee Thursday that he did nothing wrong when he steered a multimillion-dollar contract to the firm of former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
31 May 2011, 11:42 am by David Lat
’ [Former Attorney General John] Ashcroft deserves neither label, not least because eight Court of Appeals judges agreed with his judgment in a case of first impression. [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 4:07 pm
Consider this: The administration was sharply divided over the legality of President Bush's most controversial eavesdropping policies, a congressman quoted former Attorney General John Ashcroft as telling a House panel Thursday. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 12:10 am
And yes, the Ashcroft in the firm's name is John Ashcroft, U.S. attorney general during George W. [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 8:25 pm
Attorney we have now was a crony of former Governor Bill Owens. [read post]
17 May 2007, 5:24 pm
"Now comes word of high speed car races to the Hospital bedside of then Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
6 Dec 2009, 9:07 am by Timothy P. Flynn
Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 1:19 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft and a cadre of top Bush-era U.S. attorneys is forming a new law firm, an outgrowth of his consulting business. [read post]