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Five years ago, Jose Padilla was the Dirty Bomber, a "known terrorist" at the core of "an unfolding terrorist plot" to wreak havoc on the United States with a "radioactive dirty bomb," as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft proclaimed...
...still has G.O.P. backers. Viet Dinh, former assistant AG to John Ashcroft and an author of the Patriot Act, has been his best friend since they had a nightlong argument freshman year at Harvard about what the framers of the Constitution thought of men's souls. Dinh toes the G.O.P. line on the probe but believes "Preet can be trusted to follow the facts and take appropriate actions." Gonzales testifies April...
...January 2001, having only been in office three days, U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft subpoenaed Stern’s notes from an interview with an alleged American bioterrorist...
It’s not as if Kuo is godless, either. He was an Ashcroft aide and has an evangelical blog, and represents the kind of voter the Bush White House relies on as its base. But Kuo notes that Bush political operatives Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove called the evangelicals “ridiculous” and “nuts” in strategy meetings—an excellent way to alienate that base before next election...
...told Grey: "Everything we did, down to the tiniest detail, every rendition and every technique of interrogation used against prisoners in our hands, was scrutinized and approved by [CIA] headquarters. And nothing was done without approval from the White House - from Rice herself and with a signature from John Ashcroft," the former agent said, referring to Condoleezza Rice, who was National Security Advisor at the time, and the then-Attorney General. Rice, quoted in Grey's book, told reporters last December that "the United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe...