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Eric Holder: Help Save 49 Lives, Please!

Claudia Ricci | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Criminal Justice System, Eric Holder, Senator Feingold, Death Row, Capital Punishment, Alberto Gonzalez, John Ashcroft, Texas Death Penalty, Attorney General Holder, Obama Death Penalty, Buddhism, Politics News
Claudia Ricci

If it were up to me, I would withdraw death penalty eligibility in all of the pending cases, and I would tell prosecutors never to seek the death penalty. There is the possibility of saving 49 lives.

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Jason Linkins

Slate's Lithwick On Holder: 'Hello, Legal Clarity'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Arlen Specter, Waterboarding, Holder Hearings, Torture, Eric Holder Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Dahlia Lithwick, Eric Holder, Media News

When people talk about how "demoralized" the Justice Department has become under the Bush administration, they're not just being glib. Imagine if you...

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Torture: A modest proposal

Mark Kleiman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stress Positions, Terrorism, John Yoo, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Hypothermia, David Addington, Commander-in Chief, Dick Cheney, Inherent Powers, John Ashcroft, Bagram, Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzales, Torture, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

While the Bush administration has no doubt made errors in the course of its valiant attempts to protect us all, in one respect it has displayed admirable creativity, from which the Obama administration could benefit.

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Biden On Prosecution Of Bush Officials: "Not Ruling It Out"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rumsfeld Ashcroft, Joe Biden, Biden Abc News, Bush Prosecutions, John Ashcroft, Bush Administration Prosecutions, Donald Rumsfeld, Biden Prosecutions, Politics News

In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopolous, Joe Biden said he was 'not ruling out' prosecutions for Bush administration officials over tortu...

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Rumsfeld, Ashcroft Could Face Legal Jeopardy For War Abuses

Newsweek | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Officials Torture, Bush Officials, Rumsfeld, Bush Officials Abuses, John Ashcroft, Rumsfeld Legal Jeopardy, Bush Legal Jeopardy, War on Terror, Bush Officials Legal Jeopardy, Politics News

The United States, like many countries, has a bad habit of committing wartime excesses and an even worse record of accounting for them afterward. But ...

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Ashcroft, Mueller Civil Rights Lawsuit Goes To Supreme Court Today

AFP | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Justice Department, Supreme Cort, Terrorism, Scotus, Robert Mueller, Fbi, John Ashcroft, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday on whether cabinet-level officials could be held accountable for controversial tac...

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Eric Holder Is Change I Can Believe In

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Top Cop, John Ashcroft, The Rachel Maddow Show, Obama-Biden Administration, President Barack Obama, Attorney General, Arianna Huffington, Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Stacy Parker Aab

Like many Americans of all colors, I have a healthy respect, if not outright fear of law enforcement. One can't always expect fairness in the criminal justice system.

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Will God Stop Voting?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.29.2008 | Living

Read More: George Bush, Mark Foley, John MCain, John Ashcroft, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Larry Craig, God, Barack Obama, Voting, Religion, Living News
Deepak Chopra

There never will be, and never should be, a religious reason to pick one candidate over another. God hasn't personally voted in an American election, but he keeps voting by proxy.

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Colin Powell, United Nations, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Human Rights, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Security Council, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Election 2008, Torture, Convention Against Torture, Unsc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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Jason Linkins

GOP Offers Valentine's Day Cruise With John Ashcroft

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cruising, John Ashcroft, Valentine's Day, Republicans on Boats, Tom Tancredo, Republicans, Politics News

If this election season runs the way most observers predict, the GOP will be facing historic electoral losses in November. How will they cope, if thi...

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Top Bush Officials Participated In Torture Talks, New Documents Show

NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft Waterboarding, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, John Ashcroft, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency ...

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Financial Bailout = Patriot Act Redux: Under Cover of Crisis, the Republic is Lost

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Chuck Schumer, 2008 Elections, No Blank Check, Depression, Usa Patriot Act, Paulson, The New York Times, Economic Crisis, Obama, Chris Dodd, Democratic Party, Democrats, 2008 Election, Recession, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Henry Paulson Plan, Mainstream Media, Patriot Act, Bailout, FInancial Markets, Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Ben Bernanke, John Ashcroft, Bear Stearns Bailout, Treasury Secretary, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Business News
Pete Cenedella

Forgive me if I smell a similar attempt by the Republicans to ram a lopsided, ready-made and offensive prescription down the throats of the American people under the cover of crisis.

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Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Cia Waterboarding, John Ashcroft Testimony, John Ashcroft Testifies, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Torture Memo, Torture Memos, Bush Administration Torture, Politics News

Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...

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Bush Rejected Ashcroft's DOJ Picks In Favor Of Torture-Legalizing Loyalist

Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, George W, Bush, Justice Department, Bush Administration Interrogation Techniques, Bush Administration Torture Legalizing, John Ashcroft, Bush Justice Department, John Yoo, Jack Goldsmith, John Yoo Memo, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

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...

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Fired US Attorney: Ashcroft Was "Pushed Out" Because He "Refused To Sign Off On The Warrantless Wiretaps"

Think Progress | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ashcroft Hospital Bed, US Attorneys Scandal, Bush Warrantless Wiretapping, John Ashcroft, John Ashcroft Warrantless Wiretapping, US Attorney Scandal, Domestic Spying Program, Warrantless Wiretapping, James Comey, Bush Domestic Spying, David Iglesias, Politics News

In March 2004, then-acting Attorney General James Comey refused to sign an order extending President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program "amid ...

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Justice Department Report On Politicization: Politicians React

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Doj Politics, Doj, Justice Department, Justice Department Politicization, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzalez, Justice Department Report Responses, Patrick Leahy, John Conyers, Politics News

Reactions to the report confirming wide-spread politicization at the Justice Department. Congressman John Conyers: When it comes to the hiring of no...

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In Honor Of George Carlin, Examining Nipplephobia And Buttcrackphobia In America

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Buttcrackphobia, Puritanism, First Amendment, Children, Janet Jackson, Nudity, Puritan, Seven Words, Justice Department, Statue, Mermaid, Nipple, Butt Crack, Television, Naked, George Carlin, Nipplephobia, John Ashcroft, Logo, Taliban, Starbucks, Bill Maher, Coppertone, Tempurpedic, Media News
Chris Weigant

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.

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Nadler Grills The Torture Team With An Eye To Prosecute

Lou Dubose | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

Read More: GuantáNamo, Nadler Ashcroft, Nadler Subcommittee, Nadler Franks, Jerrold Nadler, Pelosi, Marjorie Cohn, Military Commissions Act, John Yoo, Rep Nadler, Nadler Torture, Nadler Yoo, Cheney, Davis Addington, Nancy Pelosi Torture, Military Commissions Act 2006, Dick Cheney, Nadler Addington, Cheney Geneva Conventions, Nadler, Military Commissions Act of 2006, John Ashcroft, Geneva Conventions, Cheney Torture, Cheney Nadler, Yoo Torture, Home News
Lou Dubose

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.

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Ashcroft: No Conflict on Monitoring Deal

AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft, Ashcroft Testify, Attorneys, House Judiciary Committee, John Ashcroft Judiciary Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft denied any conflict of interest Tuesday in getting a multimillion-dollar contract to monitor ...

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Ashcroft to Testify on Monitor Contracts

AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft, Congress, Ashcroft Testify, Ashcroft Monitor Contracts, Ashcroft No-Bid Contracts, Congress Investigates Ashcroft, Politics News

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...

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Ashcroft: Bush Is "Most Respectful Ever" Of Civil Liberties

St. Louis Today | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ashcroft Bush Best Civil Liberties, Ashcroft Civil Liberties, John Ashcroft, Bush Best Civil Liberties, Ashcroft Bush, Bush Civil Liberties, Politics News

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Saturday defended President George W. Bush's electronic surveillance program, saying it was far less int...

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Lawmaker Demands Ashcroft Testify Over DOJ Consulting Job

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, John Ashcroft, House Judiciary Committee, Politics News

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee demanded that former Attorney General John Ashcroft testify about his appointment to oversee a Justice D...

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Ex-Officials Rake In No-Bid Contracts As Watchdogs

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aschcroft No-Bid Contract, Bush Administration, John Ashcroft, Industry Watchdogs, No-Bid Contracts, Politics News

Federal prosecutors are steering no-bid contracts to former government officials who earn millions of dollars by monitoring companies accused of cheat...

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Ashcroft No-Bid Contract Brings Scrutiny To Justice Department

New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mukasey, Gonzales, Justice Department, John Ashcroft, Washington, US Justice Department, Politics News

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...

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