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21 Jun 2007, 3:52 pm
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] said Thursday at a closed-door hearing held by the US House Intelligence Committee [official website] that there had been divisions between members of the Bush administration as to whether the president's warrantless wiretapping program [JURIST news archive] was legal. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 3:33 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that Javaid Iqbal, who alleges he was detained "solely because of [his] race, religion, and national origin" following the September 11 terrorist attacks [JURIST news archive] and subjected to mistreatment during detention, can proceed with civil lawsuits against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 1:30 am
The court also refused to dismiss on qualified immunity grounds claims against Attorney General John Ashcroft, and FBI Director Robert Mueller that they targeted him for mistreatment and classified him as a detainee of high interest solely because of his race, ethnicity and religion. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 5:45 pm
In the mahogany and marble splendor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Lower Manhattan, lawyers for former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other government officials argued that the officials were entitled to immunity from the lawsuit filed by the man, Javaid Iqbal, who had been known as 'the cable guy' to his Long Island customers before he was swept into a federal detention center in Brooklyn as were hundreds of other Muslim… [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 12:58 pm
In shocking testimony, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who lead the Justice Department in the absence of an ailing John Aschcroft, described a nighttime visit by Gonzales to Ashcroftâ € ™s hospital room. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 6:52 am
Moreover, former Attorney General John Ashcroft has explained that the Government decided to declare al-Marri an "enemy combatant" only after he became a "hard case" by "reject[ing] numerous offers to improve his lot by . . . providing information. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 9:59 am
Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department lawyer in retaliation for his role in a review of a government surveillance program that led to the Intensive Care Unit Showdown, where then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card attempted to persuade a post-op John Ashcroft to give legal cover to the government's secret domestic spying program, according to written answers provided to Congress by former Deputy… [read post]
24 May 2007, 9:55 am
Silvestre Reyes, the Texas Democrat who leads the House Intelligence Committee, announced the June hearings will include testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the newly minted freedom fighter and former AG John Ashcroft, former Deputy AG James Comey, secret court judges and outside experts. [read post]
21 May 2007, 5:12 am
The testimony by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey about the dramatic 2004 meeting in the intensive care unit with then-Counsel to the President Alberto Gonzales and Attorney General John Ashcroft concerned the Department of Justice's authorization for a classified... [read post]
20 May 2007, 2:32 pm
The Washington Post has a fascinating article on former US Attorney-General John Ashcroft:As attorney general, John D. [read post]
20 May 2007, 2:12 am
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has given voice to some of the murmuring about whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft is a 4th Amendment hero in light of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before Congress last week.For those who somehow missed this firestorm, evidently Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Counsel (and present AG) Alberto Gonzalez raced to the hospital bedside of… [read post]
19 May 2007, 11:01 pm
John Ashcroft was not an acceptable Attorney General. [read post]
19 May 2007, 6:42 am
"I'd rather trade places with Jose Padilla," jokes Viet Dinh, a former senior Justice official under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. [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]
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]
17 May 2007, 1:59 pm
A fine account of the bedside Intensive Care unit showdown where Comey, the acting Attorney General while John Ashcroft was stricken with pancreas problems, told White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Attorney General then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales that the Justice Department considered their wiretapping program to be illegal was written up here by Dahlia Lithwick. [read post]
17 May 2007, 9:01 am
Yesterday, the WSJ’s Jess Bravin noted that former deputy AG Jim Comey, in his Senate testimony on Wednesday, said that Philbin was with him in Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital room when the dramatic confrontation occurred over the legality of the White House’s wiretapping policies (click here for background). [read post]
16 May 2007, 10:03 am
Politics TV has the video of James Comey's testimony yesterday about his rush to the hospital to pre-empt Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card's attempt to get former Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on the extension of the warrantless NSA wiretap program. [read post]
16 May 2007, 8:07 am
[JURIST] Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) called for the resignation [press release] of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday, a day after hearing testimony [transcript, PDF; JURIST report] from former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey [official profile] regarding an attempt by Gonzales to persuade former Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile; JURIST news archive] to reauthorize [read post]
15 May 2007, 3:13 pm
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he refused to recertify the program because Attorney General John Ashcroft had reservations about its legality just before falling ill with pancreatitis in March 2004. [read post]
