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6 Sep 2007, 11:57 pm
Civil libertarians spent years castigating Attorney General John Ashcroft for covering up Lady Justice's bare breasts and describing critics of the Patriot Act as "scaring freedom-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty. [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 Attorney… [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 6:32 am
Said memo effectively rescinds the guidelines issued on Oct. 12, 2001, by former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 4:16 pm
John Ashcroft’s firm The Ashcroft Group says it’s expected to earn somewhere between $28 million and $52 million for 18 months of work. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 8:38 am
When Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card visited John Ashcroft in a desperate attempt to secure his approval of the president's illegal wiretapping program, the second in command at the Justice Department, James Comey, intervened (as TalkLeft reported here and here). [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]
13 Mar 2007, 9:00 am
.” (His predecessor, John Ashcroft, who never served as a judge, supposedly liked to be called “General Ashcroft.”) Anyway, this morning Judge Gonzales is fighting for his job amid calls for his resignation. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 11:29 am
Attorney General Eric Holder are followed by a panel discussion that included John Ashcroft, '67, former U.S. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 5:05 pm
Ashcroft's staff reviewed drafts of the "torture" memo written by then-Assistant Attorney General John Yoo. [read post]
23 Mar 2008, 11:40 am
But former AG’s John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales didn’t do it. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 10:14 am
I am, and let me tell you, this is going to get us all burning up the phone lines on the private extension to John Ashcroft: The drifter and self-proclaimed prophet accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart showed up to his competency hearing 90 minutes late Thursday and was kicked out after he started singing a Bible verse. [read post]
13 Jun 2009, 5:53 pm
Via Volokh and Con Law Profs blog, here's the opinion mostly denying John Yoo's motion to dismiss claims by Jose Padilla. [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 10:37 am
(Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images) Playwright John Osborne noted, “In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 11:14 am
Ashcroft who worked under him when he headed the DOJ. [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 3:19 pm
The full extent of the Justice revolt, including the planned resignations of Ashcroft, Mueller and Comey, would not emerge for another year. [read post]
4 Mar 2016, 4:42 am
A terrorist sues the then sitting Attorney General, alleges a wide-ranging, worldwide conspiracy, and basically tells the court, “Let me depose AG John Ashcroft and FBI Director Louis Freeh and then I will have all the facts I need to get by this 12(b)(6) motion. [read post]
8 May 2007, 2:57 pm
I ALWAYS HEARD THAT JOHN ASHCROFT WAS THE BIG THREAT TO PRIVACY, but now it looks as if the real threat may come from newspapers: Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits. . . . [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 2:10 pm
John Walker Lindh was a trophy to the Ashcroft Justice Department. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 3:55 pm
Gonzales' predecessor, John Ashcroft. [read post]
14 Jun 2009, 10:50 am
The John Ashcroft-Alberto Gonzales Justice Department advanced an obvious agenda: expand federal executive branch power while limiting the ability of individuals to resist its exercise. [read post]
