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...against Israeli occupation--hardly a statement marking him as a terrorist. But U.S.F. president Judy Genshaft, buckling under pressure from conservative trustees, eventually fired al-Arian despite his being tenured. Congress had just passed the USA Patriot Act expanding federal powers to investigate terrorism suspects, which Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on as a tool to nail al-Arian. The act, which Congress is working to extend another four years, allowed FBI investigators access to FBI intelligence, which had been off-limits for building criminal cases. The intel files include wiretaps and other surveillance of al-Arian carried out abroad...
...issues such as how to make Iran a "strategic partner" and how to handle the wills of two suicide bombers. Still, it offered no real links between al-Arian and terrorist acts. Nonetheless, says a former FBI supervisor involved in the case, in late 2002 word came down from Ashcroft to build an al-Arian indictment. "We were in shock, but those were our marching orders," says the supervisor, who felt that the Justice Department was rushing to indict before it had really appraised the evidence...
...leak of Plame’s identity. Yet despite the recent investigation and admissions of guilt, he has yet to ask for one resignation. This is not surprising considering the Administration’s consistent failure to responsibly deal with internal incompetence or corruption—neither John Ashcroft nor Donald Rumsfeld were ever asked to resign when such action would have demonstrated appropriate accountability. Even Libby—who resigned himself—received no official calls from the White House. It is unfortunate that we cannot trust our President to be a man of his word and must...
...positions Alito holds in common with his fellow conservative Catholic Italian-American, Justice Antonin Scalia. Alito is perhaps a non-threatening version of Scalia-he's certainly in the justice's camp, but not as combative. Adam Ciongoli, a corporate lawyer who was counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft, was a clerk to Alito and said he is humble and approachable. "He always reminded the clerks, particularly new ones, that they had to remember that judges had a limited role," Ciangoli said...
...Irving Kristol has derisively labeled this approach the "feminization" of politics, but members of Congress are not so dismissive. Some have taken away the lesson from the presidential campaign that voters won't go along with shrinking government if leaders sound mean while they are doing it. Besides, argues Ashcroft, voters do make a distinction between, say, restraining the growth of the federal bureaucracy and providing a helping hand to workers in an insecure economy...