Articles tagged with: “John Ashcroft”
Where Are They Now? Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In ...by Nick Turse
TomDispatch In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%. According to official statistics, 14.5 million Americans ...
Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze ...by Alfred McCoy
America's Political Paralysis Over Torture TomDispatch If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, ...
Several Bush officials work in areas related to former jobs
By Fredreka Schouten / USA Today WASHINGTON — More than one in four members of President George W. Bush's Cabinet have landed jobs with consulting ...
Tales From Torture's Dark World ...by Mark Danner
New York Times ON a bright sunny day two years ago, President George W. Bush strode into the East Room of the White House and ...
The Hard Cases
Will Obama institute a new kind of preventive detention for terrorist suspects? By Jane Meyer / New Yorker The last "enemy combatant" being detained in ...
Gonzales Defends Role in Antiterror Policies
By Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Alberto Gonzales, who has kept a low profile since resigning as attorney general nearly 16 months ...
The Noose Tightens
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and other top Bush officials could soon face legal jeopardy By Jonathan Tepperman / Newsweek The United States, like many countries, has a ...
U.S. considers using racial profiling in terror cases
By Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying ...
FBI agents' torture warnings ignored, Justice official says
Report: NSC was deaf to complaints about treatment of terror suspects By Marisa Taylor / Mcclatchy-tribune WASHINGTON — FBI agents repeatedly complained that harsh interrogation ...
House panel subpoenas top Cheney aide
Addington sought for testimony on administration's interrogation practices Associated Press WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to compel a top aide to Vice ...
House Judiciary Committee Expected To Subpoena Cheney Aide
By Daniel W. Reilly / The Politico House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) has once again threatened to subpoena the top aide to Vice ...
Cheney, others OK'd harsh interrogations
By Lara Jakes Jordan and Pamela Hess / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on ...
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects By Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue / ABC ...
Gonzales' UF talk stirs arrests, no Taser
GAINESVILLE -- (AP) -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endured screams of ''criminal'' and ''liar'' during a speech at the University of Florida on Monday ...
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen / New York Times WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in ...
US president sees another 'Bushie' go
By Edward Luce and Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times Alberto Gonzales on Monday announced the end of his service to the Bush administration in much ...
US Attorney General Gonzales resigns
By Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales, the nation's first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday — ending a nasty, monthslong ...
Campaign against alleged voter fraud fuels political tempest
By Greg Gordon / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal ...
Abramoff-Linked Lobbyist Resigns
By Josephine Hearn / Politico.com Amid reports the Justice Department is investigating ties between Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) and jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key ...
Gonzales Aide Suggested Replacements for Attorneys
By David Johnston / New York Times WASHINGTON, April 13 — A Justice Department e-mail released today shows that the former chief of staff to ...
1 man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps
By Martha Mendoza / Associated Press In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with ...
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11
By Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John ...
Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat
By Philip Shenon and Mark Mazzetti / New York Times JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 — A review of White House records has determined that ...
Justice Dept. Is Criticized by Ex-Official on Subpoenas
By Adam Liptak / New York Times Subpoenas issued last month to reporters for The San Francisco Chronicle were criticized yesterday by a former chief ...
National Journal: Novak Assured Rove He Would Protect Him
Editor & Publisher NEW YORK - Murray Waas, who has broken so many key stories in the Plame/CIA leak case for the National Journal, has ...
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