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Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Subject: txt bbro grot nsec - Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial, one of his predecessors said Wednesday. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who held his position during the Bush administration from 2001-2005, said that Holder lacked the legal standing to decide to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
According to former Attorney General John Ashcroft: Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial ... Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who held his position during the Bush administration from 2001-2005, said that Holder lacked the legal standing to decide to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid...
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft said Friday that prosecuting terrorists in federal court in New York rather than a military tribunal jeopardizes the safety of Americans. At a news conference in Overland Park, Ashcroft, a former two-term Missouri governor and senator, said information coming out of a future trial could provide important intelligence to terrorists.
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The Turner Report (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... the Sept. 12, 2007, Turner Report: As I have noted in two earlier posts, former Attorney General John Ashcroft is speaking tonight at Missouri State University and the gutless wonder who formerly served as our state's governor, has it in his contract that no videocameras or recording devices can be used. He has graciously deigned to allow the university to make an official recording,...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In 2002, then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft 'made the right call' to try Muhammad and his accomplice in Virginia instead of Maryland. On Tuesday, he is set to die by lethal injection. Seven years ago this month, the captured Beltway snipers -- John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 -- were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had...
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BILL FISHER (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By William Fisher Bush-era Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A Federal Appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping a Canadian citizen in New York and shipping him off to Syria where he was imprisoned for a year and tortured. But, in another case, five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million...
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StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... According to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Center, President Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, greenlighted 139 federal death penalty prosecutions out of 641 cases that might have been eligible for capital punishment. That's a 22 percent approval rate. Ashcroft's successor, Alberto Gonzales, authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty in 81 out of 423...
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... According to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Center, President Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, greenlighted 139 federal death penalty prosecutions out of 641 cases that might have been eligible for capital punishment. That's a 22 percent approval rate. Ashcroft's successor, Alberto Gonzales, authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty in 81 out of 423...
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KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... Robin's father, was chosen by 32 percent of respondents as their favorite. Only former Gov. John Ashcroft is more popular, according to the survey. "Matt Blunt clearly was not a popular Governor, and that could hurt his father next year. Carnahan's father on the other hand seems to be generally well remembered. It will be interesting to see how much those things matter next year...
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Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Public Policy Polling, 763 voters, 11/13-15/2009, (source) Of Missouri's last five elected Governors: John Ashcroft, Mel Carnahan, Bob Holden, Matt Blunt, and Jay Nixon- who do you have the least favorable opinion of? Ashcroft 21% Carnahan 19% Holden 22% Blunt 29% Nixon 10% Now, the poll was a duel between partisans. But amongst Independents, they disliked Holden and Blunt and...
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The Phil Nugent Experience (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... comprehensive "A.B.C. (Anything But Clinton) policy, brushed the advice aside and gave John Ashcroft his leave to focus on such important matters as the rumors that New Orleans had a whorehouse in it. In a Republican politician's notion of Real America, you prove that you're tough enough to deal with terrorism by not taking it seriously as a threat, and then you show that you're...
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ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... March 1995, Gorelick cowrote a radical and treasonous memo that, in the words of Attorney General John Ashcroft, goes "beyond what is legally required ... [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation." What does this...
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Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... his lawyer David Addington, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a young, and then unknown, lawyer inside the Justice Department named John Yoo. The order created a separate track of justice for any foreign citizen picked up on a global battlefield with the Pentagon serving as jailer, prosecutor and judge. Read more READ THE...
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Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Mr. Obama, tear down this Gorelick Wall! BY: Ellis Washington Although you understand the debilitating impact of the [Gorelick] wall, I cannot imagine that the commission knew about this [1995] memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review. ~ John Ashcroft, attorney general, before the 9/11 commission, April 13, 2004 The tragic murder of 14 people (I include the...
