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...creating a task force, staffed with experts on complex financial crimes, to pursue a full criminal investigation. But the country was quickly reminded of the pervasive reach of Enron and its executives-the biggest contributors to the Presidential campaign of George W. Bush-when U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft had to recuse himself from the probe because he had received $57,499 in campaign cash from Enron for his failed 2000 Senate re-election bid in Missouri. Then the entire office of the U.S. Attorney in Houston recused itself because too many of its prosecutors had personal ties to Enron...
...John Ashcroft, whose Justice Department launched its criminal investigation Thursday into Enron's fall - and the remarkable foresight of its top executives in parachuting out early and rich - recused himself and his chief of staff from the probe, just as designated attack Democrat Henry Waxman was dashing off a letter reminding Ashcroft that he'd received $25,000 from Enronites for a Senate re-election campaign. The exodus may not stop there; Bush SEC chairman Harvey Pitt once did some work for Arthur Andersen, the blind (and document-shredding) accounting watchdog in the drama, and could be next to eagerly...
...Arab-American and Muslim communities the best way to crack down on terrorism? As if the hatred, threats and discrimination Arabs and Muslims have experienced since Sept. 11 weren't enough, are we now to be humiliated by our own government? Sept. 11 should be no excuse for Ashcroft to use ethnic profiling in the campaign against terrorism. RANIA HAMMOUD Dearborn, Mich...
...David. The President was acting goofy and being a cutup, as he often is around old chums. Saturday he disappeared with Condoleezza Rice and issued the order sending bombers to Afghanistan from bases in Missouri and from Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. On Sunday morning Attorney General John Ashcroft sat at the piano and played a range of Southern spirituals while Hughes, Rice, the President and the First Lady joined in the singing. The President would soon be back at the White House, announcing the attack to the nation. "What do we do now?" asked Hughes. Replied Rice...
...However, Attorney General John Ashcroft, "the man who trashed the Bill of Rights," - "should be POY for actually resurrecting Sen. Joseph McCarthy" - "Ashcroft is leading policies that in the name of security will keep future generations of Americans ignorant of the freedom we once...