Word: ashcrofts
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...statement above, however, also reflects the sentiments of Bush’s own administration. These words, spoken by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, illustrate a fresh outrage that has been largely overlooked amid the manifest “Bush fatigue...
...Verve once crooned that life is a bittersweet symphony. Certainly, the Harvard men’s basketball team (8-22, 3-11 Ivy) has reasons to believe Richard Ashcroft was singing about them...
Meanwhile, we have had some pretty unimpressive terror “catches.” Jose Padilla, who then-Attorney General John Ashcroft labeled a “dirty bomber” with much fanfare, was recently convicted of charges unrelated to any plot to harm Americans directly. Two other terror cells supposedly smashed by American security services seemed both inept and far from able to carry out the frightening attacks that the Department of Homeland Security said they planned, including an attack on Chicago’s Sears Tower and a tunnel into Manhattan...
...Peace Corps, national service has been seen by some as a Democratic or liberal idea. In the '90s, Newt Gingrich argued that the rise of big government programs robbed people of their initiative to volunteer. After Bill Clinton signed the bill to create AmeriCorps in 1993, then Senator John Ashcroft called it "welfare for the well...
Most curious was the way he seemed to revise his explanation for his March 2004 hospital visit to ask then Attorney General John Ashcroft to reauthorize a domestic surveillance program that was secret at the time. Gonzales and another White House official made the bedside visit because Ashcroft's deputy, Jim Comey, who was acting as Attorney General while Ashcroft was under medical sedation, refused to continue the wiretapping program. Gonzales declined to say who sent him on the mission and denied that he was trying to pull an end run on Comey. Instead, he suggested, he approached Ashcroft because...