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...John Ashcroft received a rare public rebuke from his own boss last week when the White House revealed that President Bush told the 9/11 commission he was "disappointed" in him for ambushing Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, a former Justice Department official. Ashcroft not only attempted to blame her for setting up barriers to intelligence and law-enforcement information-sharing in his testimony to the panel earlier this month, using a just-declassified memo she'd written in 1995; he then furthered the attack by putting yet more documents on his Website the day before Bush's interview with the commission...
...Most experts say those barriers had been firmly in place since the mid-1980s. But if blame for insufficient terror-fighting tools is being doled out, maybe Ashcroft is in for a bit too. When Janet Reno's Justice Department protested efforts in the 1990s to make it easier for Silicon Valley to export encryption technology overseas, then-Senator Ashcroft seemed unconcerned with her contention that terrorists were turning to Internet encryption to communicate. One example she, FBI head Louis Freeh and others in law enforcement cited: Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing, used encryption to hide details...
...Former Clinton Commerce Department officials say pressure from Capitol Hill played a large role in their eventual decision to lift export controls on encryption technology. "They had us against the wall," says one. Ashcroft at the time said he was "pleased" that "the Administration finally has listened to those of us in Congress who long have urged export decontrol." That was in 1999, a year after the U.S. indicted Wadih El Hage in the plot to bomb two American embassies in East Africa. According to the indictment, El Hage sent encrypted e-mails to associates in al-Qaeda. Since becoming...
Patrick Henry College (PHC) is totally unlike the typical conception of a university. Its president, a long-time political activist involved with the recent surge in homeschooling, was mentored by Tim LaHaye, most famous for his evangelical Left Behind series of books. Janet Ashcroft (John’s wife) holds the office of secretary on the school’s Board of Trustees. Public Displays of Affection, with the exception of hand-holding, are entirely forbidden. Its spring formal, the Liberty Ball (to which I was invited but could not attend) was summed up as “gentlemanly...
Wherever the commission is headed--it is expected to issue a unanimous report in July--it's not clear that the Bush team is in a mood to go along. A handful of congressional Republicans called for the resignation of commission member Jamie Gorelick after Attorney General John Ashcroft in his testimony blamed her for erecting the infamous "wall" between intelligence and criminal investigations when she was Deputy Attorney General under Clinton. As it turns out, Gorelick had simply distilled case law going back to the early Reagan Administration, and Ashcroft's Justice Department abided by the same policy...