Word: ashcrofts
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...Attorney General John Ashcroft--so often at odds with civil libertarians--going soft? It might seem that way to those watching recent actions in the war on terrorism. Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan and held without charges for two years, last week was finally allowed to meet with a lawyer for the first time. Australian David Hicks became the first of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to gain access to lawyers, one military and one from Australia. Meanwhile, the chief author of Ashcroft's controversial Patriot Act, Viet Dinh, a former Justice official...
...story is more complicated. In the cases of Hamdi and Hicks, it appears that Ashcroft's Justice Department has gained ground in a long-simmering behind-the-scenes struggle with the Pentagon, which has jurisdiction in the cases and has taken an even harder line in its treatment of those captured in the war on terrorism. Justice has long argued that Hamdi--along with Jose Padilla, who has been imprisoned but not charged in a suspected "dirty bomb" plot--should be given an attorney and other legal rights. The Pentagon relented just before a filing deadline in a Supreme Court...
...flag in hand and unfurled it, almost wrapping himself in it. "That's our flag," he said lovingly. "We saluted that flag. We served under it. We fought for it. We watched brave men and women buried under it." He was shouting now: "And no Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft and George W. Bush is going to take it away from...
...source familiar with the panel's work. ?If they're doing it, they're doing it in such a superficial or under-the-radar fashion that that it did not become apparent to the panel,? despite testimony from the likes of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller, the source added. ?The Department of Homeland Security is focusing on today and the crisis of the moment. But who's looking at the broader issues of economic security and societal stability...
...ante. His $87 billion Iraq-Afghanistan package brought a gulp from even his staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill. And when polls showed Americans were increasingly disturbed about some of the provisions in the Patriot Act, which they viewed as a dangerous subversion of civil liberties, he sent John Ashcroft on the road to defend it and push for expanding...