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Accused spy and former FBI insider Robert Hanssen appeared briefly in federal court Monday, clad in prison-issue clothing and sitting quietly between his two lawyers. U.S. District Judge Theresa Buchanan, saying Hanssen posed a "severe risk of flight," ordered the 58-year-old to remain in prison while awaiting trial. Hanssen's lawyer Plato Cacheris said he disagreed with that characterization of his client, but added that Hanssen would not contest the judge's ruling. Hanssen will appear in court again on May 21, when he is likely to be indicted...
...time Ashcroft wrote to Pratt, the Virginia-based activist was already branded as a pariah even by those considered to the right of the GOP: Two years earlier, he had been forced to step aside as co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign after news reports of his association with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and militias...
...voted to uphold the death sentence in 41 of the 59 cases that came before him, roughly the same proportion as Ashcroft's court appointees when he was Governor. No wonder Gordon Baum, leader of white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, in 1999 included Ashcroft along with Pat Buchanan in the circle of politicians he'd like to see in the White House...
...street. A Cabinet officer may become a columnist, a commentator, a talking head. Even Henry Kissinger - in his day the greatest Cabinet-rank manipulator of columnists - now impersonates one from time to time. But it doesn't work in the other direction. Right brain, left brain, different purposes. Pat Buchanan has exhausted himself going back and forth across the line. There's something almost unsanitary in trying to turn a columnist into a public official or politician...
...Buchanan b) Alan Keyes c) Ralph Nader d) Steve Forbes...