Word: ashcroft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oklahoma City. After all, other victims' families are permitted to watch an execution if they choose - it's just the sheer number of victims in this scenario that presents a problem. But while many agree with the request in theory, the situation still presents U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft with something of an ethical conundrum: Will the U.S. government sanction the broadcast (albeit private) of an execution...
...Tuesday, when Ashcroft visited Oklahoma City and met with the victims' families, he sounded as if he were seriously considering the request. The decision, Justice Department officials report, will not be made until later this week, after Ashcroft has had a chance to meet with more family members and law enforcement officials familiar with the case. DOJ insiders predict that barring some unforeseen discovery, Ashcroft will allow the closed-circuit broadcast...
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington last week blasted FBI Director LOUIS FREEH and JOHN ASHCROFT'S Justice Department over a new wrinkle in the probe of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. After DOJ decided to yank the investigation from outgoing U.S. Attorney WILMA LEWIS and give it to prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lewis steamed that the move was "the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands...
Since JEAN CARNAHAN defeated Senator John Ashcroft in Missouri's Senate race, Republicans have been uncomfortable going after the woman who stepped in to take up her husband's campaign following his death in a plane crash. But the G.O.P. is changing its widow treatment; she is now considered a target for 2002. (Carnahan must run in 2002 since it was her husband who was elected; she was only appointed.) G.O.P. polls in Missouri show that Carnahan runs even, at 43%, against former Congressman JAMES TALENT. Against Representative JO ANN EMERSON, Carnahan leads by 9%, but partisans point out that...
...long-running feud between the FBI and prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington over the investigation of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing case has spilled nastily into public view with a blast from outgoing U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis at FBI Director Louis Freeh and the Ashcroft Justice Department...