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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that he can be held personally responsible for wrongfully detaining people as material witnesses after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
High-ranking government officials are usually protected from claims that they violated a person's civil rights. In lawsuits stemming from law enforcement and intelligence efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks, three federal courts have left open the possibility that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a lieutenant may be held personally liable.
A top aide to former Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination Thursday in a trial related to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11, and called the government practice "repugnant to the Constitution."
Not enough relevant officials were aware of the size and depth of an unprecedented surveillance program started under President George W. Bush, let alone signed off on it, a team of federal inspectors general found.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered prosecutors to produce affidavits explaining why photographs were released and publicity generated following the arrests of two Boston politicians on corruption charges last year.
A former U.S. attorney and New Jersey's Republican gubernatorial candidate Thursday defended an arrangement in which one-time Attorney General John Ashcroft's consulting firm made millions of dollars monitoring a controversial deferred prosecution agreement.
FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be sued by a former Sept. 11 detainee who claimed he was abused because of his religion and ethnicity, a sharply divided Supreme Court said Monday in a decision that could make it harder to sue top officials for the actions of low-level operatives.
A Missouri university's decision to award an honorary degree to former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is drawing protests from some students and faculty members.
Supreme Court justices voiced concern Wednesday about including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in a lawsuit that claims prisoners detained after the Sept. 11 attacks were abused because of their religion and ethnicity.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft 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.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller must face a lawsuit that claims prisoners detained after Sept. 11 were abused because of their religion and ethnicity.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday threatened to serve subpoenas on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and two others associated with the Bush administration's interrogation policies if they don't agree to testify.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft denied any conflict of interest Tuesday in getting a multimillion-dollar contract to monitor a corporation accused of bribing surgeons.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft denied any conflict of interest Tuesday in connection with a multimillion dollar arrangement with the Justice Department to monitor a corporation accused of wrongdoing.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has agreed to appear at a federal hearing looking into no-bid contracts he and others received to monitor out-of-court corporate settlements.
A federal appeals panel sympathetic to the government's detention of illegal immigrants after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seems ready to exempt former Attorney General John Ashcroft from a lawsuit alleging the detainees were abused.
In a Dec. 31 story, The Associated Press reported that Freedom of Information legislation signed by President Bush aims to reverse an order by former Attorney General John Ashcroft instructing agencies to lean against releasing information when there was uncertainty about how doing so would affect national security.
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's law firm could earn $52.2 million helping the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey monitor a leading maker of knee and hip replacements, according to recent public filings.
Helping promote Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court has paid off for three conservative lawyers, including a one-time confidant of former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
"People are getting away with murder." 18 yr. FBI Veteran Exec Calls For Investigation/Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds CaseAn 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M.
Ashcroft may be sued in 9/11 case, court rulesA federal appeals court ruled Friday that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Congressional Sex Scandals Emanating From A House On Capitol Hill Shine Spotlight On 'The Family' – The Most Powerful Religious Right Group You've Never Heard OfBut what is The Family? How has it managed to get connected to so many legislators and powerful D.C. insiders? What does the group want?
Ted Kennedy vs. John Ashcroft - videoon June 8, 2004, Ashcroft went before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had just learned from the press that Yoo and Bybee, from their perch at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, had authored memoranda in August 2002 asserting inherent presidential authority to …
Bush Official Admits Plot to Raise Phony Terror Scare to Steal Election Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, asserts in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote. Mr.
"We All As Americans Come Together As One - Teuta DedvukajAttention Rap, Hip Hop, & Our Pop Culture Artists - The Major Leagues Require Better Lyrics!
Project Expose MSM : Newsweek & Michael IsikoffIn 2003 Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff interviewed me for, and then published a story on the FBI translation program.
Editor explains why he thinks GOP is 'blackmailing Obama'According to Scott Horton at the Daily Beast, Republicans are trying to blackmail President Obama over his predecessor's 'darkest secrets.' By vowing to filibuster Obama's nominees if the torture memos are released, they pose "a serious threat to Obama's transparency," he wrote …
Torture Started With Bush, Alleges New ReportAfter a two-year investigation, the Senate names names -- Bush, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Addington, Rice.
John Ashcroft Argues Against Releasing Detainees--"Stunned" that People Think Detainees Deserve TrialFormer Attorney General John Ashcroft explains why a "take no prisoners" approach to things like Guantanamo POW's----strike that he said----"detainees...." would be better than giving "detainees" a trial. Truly revealing interview on 11/19/2008.
The election's certain loser If this election proves anything, it's that citizens are sick of BushRegardless of what the polls say, it's not clear who is going to win the presidential race. But it is clear who is going to lose: George W. Bush. If this contest proves anything, it's that the electorate is sick of him and eager for someone very different.
Philippe Sands: The torture time bombAs the US presidential election reaches a climax against the background of the financial crisis, another silent, dark, time bomb of an issue hangs over the two candidates: torture.
Loyal Bushies refuse to screen 'W.'»Yesterday, Oliver Stone's movie "W." opened in theaters nationwide, taking a look at President Bush's rise to power. However, former Bush administration staffers are in no rush to see the film, according to ABC News.
Amy Goodman: "Even the President Got Involved": Sordid New Revelations About the U.S. Attorney FiringsAttorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a special prosecutor to continue the probe into whether political misconduct led to the firing of nine US attorneys. The appointment came at the request of a lengthy Justice Department investigation that released its report Monday.
What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?In March 2004, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales made a now-famous late-night visit to the hospital room of Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking to get Ashcroft to sign a certification stating that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program was legal.
Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations WASHINGTON — Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency could legally use harsh interrogation techniques while questioning an operative of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah, according to newly rel …
Anthrax suspect commits suicide A biodefense expert who was on the verge of being charged in the 2001 anthrax mailing attacks has committed suicide. He was not the "person of interest" singled out and later exonerated.
An interactive guide to Bush-administration lawbreakingWhat kind of lawbreaking has happened on President Bush's watch, among his top and mid-level advisers? What hasn't? Who is implicated and who is not? Despite the lack of oral sex with an intern, the past seven years have yielded an embarrassment of riches when it comes to potenti …
Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes NowWhy we can't let the Bush Administration get away with its crimes.
Ashcroft Defends Interrogation Methods In Testimony Before House CommitteePressed by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, he argued that coercive interrogation techniques including waterboarding did not meet the legal definition of torture.
Fired US Attorney: Ashcroft Was "Pushed Out" Because He "Refused To Sign Off On The Warrantless Wiretaps"In March 2004, then-acting Attorney General James Comey refused to sign an order extending President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program "amid concerns about its legality and oversight." Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee in May 2007 that the White House tried to fo …
Obama Would, In Fact, Govern From The "Left"The list of issues on which Barack Obama has flipped now that the primaries are over is long and growing rapidly.
Sibel Edmonds vs. the Nuclear TerroristsThis is a primer on Sibel Edmonds; her story will be of interest to anyone concerned about US national security and sovereignty; terrorism; 9/11 truth; and abuse of power by public officials.
College Student Publically Humiliates John Ashcroft On The Subject of Torture at Knox College SpeechIt will be, sir, just give me a moment.
John Ashcroft Yelled at Me Tonight. No Joke.Earlier today, I promised you Kossacks an eyewitness account of John Ashcroft's speech on "Leadership in Troubled Times" at Knox College this evening, which I just got back from attending.
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