Ashcroft in trouble: Republicans and Dem's want answers

[xyboymil]

Don't know if this was posted....

Appears Johnny released the 27th most wanted terrorist on th FBI's most wanted list to Syria no less, who is know to harbor terrorists.

Both parties want answers..now.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERROR_SUSPECT_DEPORTED?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME

Gee, been a pretty bad week for Ashy hasn't it? :evilgrin:

[LuminousX]

1. What the Cheney!

I figured the least Ashcroft could be counted on doing is keeping criminals locked up. I guess he needed the jail space for that guy selling 'tobacco accessories' down the block from me.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. Tits and pot smokers are the only things Ashcroft wants

to eliminate. He could give a fig about protecting us from terrorists.

[underpants]

3. He probably flashed his NRA membership card to Ashcroft

That is like a Get out of jail FREE card these days.

[Cheswick2.0]

4. what can you expect from a man who orders his senate opponent assasin-

ated by small plane and still looses the election to him?
This is an evil man.

[Dying Eagle]

5. You wont see this

on the nightly news tonight. I wonder if it will get any press whatsoever.

[xyboymil]

7. There have been so many stories BURIED about this Crook..

and the rest of the Bush Administration...

What happened to the liberal media the RW is so convinced the US has?
:eyes: :eyes:

[LittleApple81]

6. Apparently that is not the only source of trouble. Sibel Edmond's gag

order seems to be finally (hopefully) coming to the forefront:

Ashcroft faces whistleblower secrets probe
By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor (my note: do you notice the Homeland crap!!!! I hate that Nazi-like term)
Published 6/27/2004 10:10 PM

WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- The federal government's secrecy watchdog is conducting an inquiry into whether Attorney General John Ashcroft acted properly in classifying information relating to a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower from the FBI's translation unit.

snip...

The translation issue goes to the heart of the pre-Sept. 11 failure of the FBI and the intelligence community in general to catch the attackers and stop the plot that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Secrecy experts say the affair appears to be part of a pattern of behavior by the Bush administration: the abuse of classification procedures to stifle public debate about politically sensitive aspects of the war against terrorism.

snip...

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing June 8, Ashcroft told lawmakers that he had personally signed off the classification decision, which he justified on national-security grounds.

"If there is spilled milk and there is no damage done," he said, "if you can recollect it and put it back in the jar, you're better off than saying, 'Well, it's spilled, no damage has been done, we might as well wait until damage is done.'"

a lot more at link - Interesting (we at DU know most of this, but it is nice to see it all in one article)

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040627-030547-4386r

[KoKo]

8. Was theChicago US attorney who went after this guy Patrick Fitzgerald?

There's a very interesting quote in this article, and I remember reading that Fitzgerald (Plame Case) had been very involved in trying to prosecute a terrorist case.

Here's the quote from the article. Is this what Josh Marshall (TPM)is talking about, that there are going to be articles written reavealing new info?

Quote:

The U.S. attorney in Chicago at one point even drafted an indictment against al-Marabh and interviewed a jailhouse informant who alleged al-Marabh admitted he had been plotting to blow up a gas truck inside a New York City tunnel, according to documents reviewed by AP.

[Webster Green]

9. Worst Attorney General in US history....

A good fit for this mis-administration though.

[KoKo]

10. Kick, because think it relates to Patrick Fitzgerald...

:kick:

[newyawker99]

11. Hi xyboymil!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[xyboymil]

12. Thanks for the welcome!

:dem: :):):):)