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Antiwar.com
April 27, 2018
Despite the lofty title, in A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership James Comey comes across in turns petty, smug, sanctimonious, bitter, and most of all, pandering. Comey feeds the rubes exactly what they paid the carnival sideshow barker in front at Barnes and Noble to hear: the pee tape, the jokesÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 17, 2018
Yet in the context of his life story, often laid out with detail and poignancy and humor, both his self-reflection about his actions and his indignation about a ... a seriously ill Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign a reauthorization of a National Security Agency program that Comey and others were convincedÃâà...
TIME
April 16, 2018
Fired FBI Director James Comey spoke out for the first time Sunday night in an exclusive interview with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos. The sit-down comes ahead of the publication of his new book, A Higher Loyalty, on Tuesday. Read the full transcript of Comey's interview: GEORGEÃâà...
Truthdig
March 26, 2018
The CCR sought to hold former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, among other officials, liable for the plaintiffs' extended detention and mistreatment. The litigation dragged on for years with the Justice Department seeking to dismiss the complaint, and the CCRÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2018
Her folksy humor had both sides chuckling in an otherwise tense trial, in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is challenging a Kansas law requiring prospective .... As an ambitious young Republican, Kobach worked in John Ashcroft's Justice Department during George W. Bush's presidency.
Chicago Reader
February 15, 2018
Because his letters mostly concerned news stories, many aren't especially relevant today (the John Ashcroft jokes feel particularly dated). Still, there are nuggets of insight and humor in many. His letter about a 1999 piece by Mara Tapp (on the birth of the Old Town School of Folk Music) begins with thisÃâà...
NPR
February 1, 2018
So Mueller was given a mission by [former Attorney General] John Ashcroft and President Bush to not just investigate attacks afterwards, but to stop plots in the first place, to disrupt the attack before it happened. It led to this massive reorganization that Bob Mueller spent the next 12 years of his tenureÃâà...
The Intercept
January 3, 2018
We often engaged in gallows humor about what it was going to be like for me once I went to jail. ..... that something potentially illegal was going on at DOJ, that officials seemed to be ignoring the law requiring warrants for national security wiretaps, and that Attorney General John Ashcroft might be involved.
Washington Examiner
June 12, 2017
The Qatari government's roster of American lobbying and consulting groups now includes former attorney general John Ashcroft, whose firm recently disclosed a lucrative contract with the Middle Eastern country. Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay flagged on Monday a new Foreign Agents RegistrationÃâà...
NPR
May 17, 2017
JOHN ASHCROFT: Well, I don't know a person more dedicated to the concept and ideal of justice. He is a person who has invested his life largely in pursuing law enforcement and the administration of justice. He served both for - as a U.S. attorney, I think, in Boston for the Reagan administration and then inÃâà...
The New Yorker
April 24, 2017
John Ashcroft: Tap Dancer Extraordinaire. Ashcroft, primarily known until now as the Attorney General under Bush who advocated for torture and the wrongful detention of American citizens, is putting on the old soft shoe and tap dancing all over our hearts. We'll get to cheer Ashcroft on as he takes to theÃâà...
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