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Salt Lake City is thousands of miles from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but the shadows of those crumbled buildings will nevertheless loom large over the Winter Games. This week, Attorney General John Ashcroft acknowledged unprecedented safety concerns by assigning still more federal officers to an already massive law enforcement presence...
...release of the tape, which came a week after the broadcast of a seized al-Qaeda video detailing a bombing plot in Singapore, was a chilling reminder of the terror network's destructive aims and the elusiveness of its operatives. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the U.S. has launched an international manhunt for the five and asked the public to help "identify, locate and incapacitate" them. A senior U.S. official told TIME that the tapes were first viewed by CIA specialists, who passed them along to the FBI. Officials at both agencies were so convinced the tapes showed evidence...
...until he gets an immunity deal. So as the House got under way Thursday, fed live to the cable news networks, it was Andersen partner C.E. Andrews, and in-house lawyer Nancy Temple splitting hairs about when Justice called and the shredding stopped - and getting bumped for John Ashcroft talking about John Walker...
...idea of a national ID card leaped into the headlines just after Sept. 11. Oracle chairman Larry Ellison offered to donate the pertinent software. Ellison went to see Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was noncommittal despite his obvious enthusiasm for expanding government powers into other areas that trouble civil libertarians...
...native Californian is in the process of being transferred from U.S. military custody to that of the FBI. He has been advised of his Miranda rights, and has waived them, according to Ashcroft. Walker was officially charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. He will also be tried there...