By the way, like the near 600 comments on wired about Ashcroft as new Ethics Chief for Blackwater/Xe, Glen Greenwald has an Op Ed on The Illogic of the Torture Debate and also has a rousing 600 + letters to the editor:
GO here and GO here
Updated Friday, May 6 - New Item - on John Ashcroft/Xe-Blackwater GO here
According to this site (new to me) "More than merely a cliché, John Ashcroft really is holier than thou. His grandfather and father were both evangelical preachers, and Rev Ashcroft's" Find more little known facts here
Here's another timeline (qualified as I am not familiar with this site) going way back to setting up of the Patriot Act with this shocking kind of leadership:
GO here Visibility911.com October 12, 2001: Ashcroft Urges Agencies to Deny FOIA RequestsAttorney General Ashcroft encourages federal agencies to deny requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In a memo to all government departments and agencies, he states, “When you carefully consider FOIA requests and decide to withhold records, in whole or in part, you can be assured that the Department of Justice will defend your decisions.” This is a dramatic shift from the Clinton Administration, which instructed federal officials to grant all information requests unless there was “foreseeable harm” in doing so. [Washington Post, 12/2/2002] The New York Times notes that while the new policy was announced after 9/11, “it had been planned well before the attacks.” [New York Times, 1/3/2003]
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See more on Ashcroft's history at nomorecrusades.blogspot.com
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