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...anticipation, McVeigh?s execution has been delayed so that his defense team can examine an estimated 3,100 pages of documents discovered this week during an FBI archiving exercise. The documents were supposed to have been provided to the defense under a pre-trial agreement; Attorney General John Ashcroft has given McVeigh?s lawyers until June 11 to examine the papers...
...Shannon: Freeh only told the White House about his plans on Monday and then told Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday. Freeh has kept this very close; he didn?t even tell his most intimate aides at FBI that he was leaving until he actually walked...
...That timeframe hasn?t given the White House or Ashcroft a lot of time to think about replacements. But, as per usual when a post like this opens up, people already have lots of ideas as to who might take Freeh?s place...
...corruption cases. He has impressed careerists in the FBI and at the Justice Department with his intellectual courage and his passion for public service. He is a patrician, an Ivy Leaguer who?s very smart very high-minded and idealistic. He?s also a decorated Vietnam War hero. Before Ashcroft?s confirmation, Mueller was essentially running the Justice Department as the acting deputy Attorney General. If there were a department-wide vote at Justice to name Freeh?s replacement, Mueller would get quite a few of them...
Bush has certainly demonstrated his strong religious convictions by controversially choosing the ultra-religious John Ashcroft as his Attorney General and by removing money from overseas charities which discuss abortions, all within his first week in office. Aside from the moral problems of such policies, they do not seem either charitable or a good way to follow his campaign pledge to forge a new style of consensus-based politics...