Word: ashcrofts
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...against Israeli occupation--hardly a statement marking him as a terrorist. But U.S.F. president Judy Genshaft, buckling under pressure from conservative trustees, eventually fired al-Arian despite his being tenured. Congress had just passed the USA Patriot Act expanding federal powers to investigate terrorism suspects, which Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on as a tool to nail al-Arian. The act, which Congress is working to extend another four years, allowed FBI investigators access to FBI intelligence, which had been off-limits for building criminal cases. The intel files include wiretaps and other surveillance of al-Arian carried out abroad...
...leak of Plame’s identity. Yet despite the recent investigation and admissions of guilt, he has yet to ask for one resignation. This is not surprising considering the Administration’s consistent failure to responsibly deal with internal incompetence or corruption—neither John Ashcroft nor Donald Rumsfeld were ever asked to resign when such action would have demonstrated appropriate accountability. Even Libby—who resigned himself—received no official calls from the White House. It is unfortunate that we cannot trust our President to be a man of his word and must...
...positions Alito holds in common with his fellow conservative Catholic Italian-American, Justice Antonin Scalia. Alito is perhaps a non-threatening version of Scalia-he's certainly in the justice's camp, but not as combative. Adam Ciongoli, a corporate lawyer who was counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft, was a clerk to Alito and said he is humble and approachable. "He always reminded the clerks, particularly new ones, that they had to remember that judges had a limited role," Ciangoli said...
...promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group, the Renewal Alliance, which includes such Republicans as House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Senators Dan Coats and John Ashcroft, will meet for the first time this week to push a menu of compassion-loaded programs, including flextime, charity tax credits and enterprise zones. Says Kasich: "How kids get educated, how families are doing, how our environment is doing, medical care. Those are the issues we should be pushing...
...Irving Kristol has derisively labeled this approach the "feminization" of politics, but members of Congress are not so dismissive. Some have taken away the lesson from the presidential campaign that voters won't go along with shrinking government if leaders sound mean while they are doing it. Besides, argues Ashcroft, voters do make a distinction between, say, restraining the growth of the federal bureaucracy and providing a helping hand to workers in an insecure economy...