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Very strange testimony yesterday from JohnAshcroft before the House Judiciary Committee. According to various reports that have come out since his departure from the Justice Department, Ashcroft was decidedly uncomfortable with--and flat-out opposed to--some of the more dubious aspects of the Bush administration's war on terror. For instance, during a 2002 White House meeting...
JohnAshcroft has defended waterboarding before a House panel. The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a “valuable” purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General JohnAshcroft told a House committee Thursday. . . . . “The reports that I have heard, and I have no reason to disbelieve them, indicate that they were very [...]...
But the former attorney general defends White House officials who pressured him while he was hospitalized to approve surveillance programs. Former Atty. Gen. JohnAshcroft on Thursday disavowed the legal reasoning once used to justify coercive interrogations of terrorism suspects, but defended White House officials who pressured him while he was hospitalized four years ago to approve...
The Congress finally found JohnAshcroft. The former Attorney General came out of semi-hiding and testified before the full House Judiciary Committee Thursday about his role in the detainee interrogations memos, pretty much another collective yawn for the media despite some moments of candor and verve. Mr. Ashcroft unsurprisingly declined to call waterboarding torture but he did...
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General JohnAshcroft testified before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, defending advice the Department of Justice ( DOJ) gave the Bush administration on the legality of certain interrogation methods used on terrorism suspects. Ashcroft had been called before the committee to testify on his involvement with 2002 and 2003 so-called "torture memos"...
"Ashcroft Testifies on Interrogation Policy; Letter of Law Was Followed, He Says": This article appears today in The Washington Post. And Dana Milbank's "Washington Sketch" column is headlined "JohnAshcroft, Riding Back on a White Horse."...
As we've reported , former Attorney General JohnAshcroft was on the Hill yesterday, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, As we mentioned, Ashcroft's testimony called into question the timeline of the CIA interrogations and suggested that perhaps torture began...
Did the CIA start using torture before the DOJ authorized it in the infamous torture memos? That's what it sounded like according to former Attorney General JohnAshcroft, who was on the Hill yesterday testifying on interrogation techniques before the...
WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General JohnAshcroft yesterday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects, but dug in his heels to defend White House officials who pressured him while he was hospitalized four years ago to approve terror surveillance programs.
Former Attorney General JohnAshcroft on Thursday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects, but dug in his heels to defend White House officials who pressured him while he was hospitalized four years ago to approve terror surveillance programs.
After JohnAshcroft’s testimony last week in which he bobbed and weaved his way around answering every question about what he did during his time in the White House, Jon Stewart and John Oliver compare Bush and his merry band of obfuscators to other American Presidential liars in order to make a [...]
Filed under: OpEd , The Daily Show , Episode Reviews , Reality-Free "Total (Lack of) Recall": Either the House Judiciary Committee loves talking about torture or they haven't been getting any answers during their hearings. Last week, they managed to pull JohnAshcroft in for questioning, but they might as well have stayed at home. I can't look at JohnAshcroft without thinking...
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they “have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering,” according to a previously secret Justice Department memo released Thursday. Former U.S. Attorney General JohnAshcroft testifies before Congress July 17 [...]...
Last November the Newark Star-Ledger reported on an eyebrow-raising instance of the Justice Department practice of leaning on companies under investigation to appoint "corporate monitors". In particular, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie had "helped the Ashcroft Group -- the...
