'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies
By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern, originally posted on Consortiumnews.com on July 19, 2008. One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcro...
By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern, originally posted on Consortiumnews.com on July 19, 2008. One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcro...
Salon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...
Washington Post | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...
Think Progress | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
In March 2004, then-acting Attorney General James Comey refused to sign an order extending President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program "amid ...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Reactions to the report confirming wide-spread politicization at the Justice Department. Congressman John Conyers: When it comes to the hiring of no...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
You would think, with cable television and the internet, that we've come a long way since Carlin's "Seven Word." But we really haven't.
Lou Dubose | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
The Bush Administration shielded itself from anti-torture laws, but prohibitions on torture aren't so easily circumvented-- they live on the books here and overseas and without statutes of limitation.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
It was a telling sign that neither Democratic candidate saw fit to visit Punxsutawney before the Pennsylvania primary. Nobody wanted the press to rem...
Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
For anyone who's traveled unembedded through Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation began five years ago, Andrew Sullivan's warning brings a sad smile of recognition, and a hope that his words will prove prophetic.
AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft denied any conflict of interest Tuesday in getting a multimillion-dollar contract to monitor ...
AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
TRENTON, N.J. — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has agreed to appear at a federal hearing looking into no-bid contracts he and others rece...
William Fisher | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Critics of the Bush Administration say they are not surprised at the president's use of the budget to thwart the will of congress. They see the tactic as part of a pattern of restricting access to information.
William Fisher | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
How much credibility does the Bush first-term attorney general have on the subject of protecting civil liberties and the rule of law?
St. Louis Today | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Saturday defended President George W. Bush's electronic surveillance program, saying it was far less int...
Philip Giraldi | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
Sibel Edmonds' story, if true, involves corruption at the highest levels of government coupled with the sale of secrets vital to the security of the United States.
New York Times | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee demanded that former Attorney General John Ashcroft testify about his appointment to oversee a Justice D...
Paul Helmke | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
The Second Amendment should not be a barrier to the adoption of sensible gun laws that help save lives.
Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Federal prosecutors are steering no-bid contracts to former government officials who earn millions of dollars by monitoring companies accused of cheat...
New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out o...
Michael Siegel | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
We owned the room for 20 minutes. Ashcroft stammered and said he didn't know what to do. Only after the campus Republicans shouted, "Keep going!" did the former AG attempt to regain his flow.
Think Progress | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
Last night, John Ashcroft delivered an address on the Cornell University campus "in the face of shouting dissenters and shrouded protesters." At his l...
Think Progress | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
Last night, John Ashcroft delivered an address on the Cornell University campus "in the face of shouting dissenters and shrouded protesters." At his l...
Think Progress | Faiz | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics
Last night, former Attorney General John Ashcroft delivered an address on national security at the University of Colorado. The event was marked by hea...
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Mr. Ashcroft seems to assume that patriotic Americans should give their government the benefit of the doubt and act compliantly.
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Coleen Rowley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home