Ashcroft&#39;s Mixed Legacy
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With Attorney General John Ashcroft, the country often got more bark than bite from its Justice Department chief. Usually willing, often eager to get on television to announce a development in the legal war
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (10/11/04) - US Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his resignation from the Bush administration on Tuesday in a five-page letter to newly re-elected US President George Bush in which he said he felt he had achieved his goal of
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There are many question marks about what the former British prime minister can achieve as special envoy.
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Jacques Chirac is remembered abroad as the French president who stood up to the United States over the Iraq war and battled for national influence in a globalising world, but at home the legacy of his monumental career remains deeply ambiguous.
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With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Bush administration is now depending on two politicians -- one accused in the 1990s of being a crook and the other still viewed as almost powerless -- to help prop up President Pervez Musharraf and stabilize volatile Pakistan, according to U.S. offici...
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Speculation swirled about Washington Thursday over the future makeup of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet, with reports indicating Attorney General John Ashcroft is likely to leave the administration soon.
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Not many people foresaw the postwar difficulties the administration has endured in Iraq. Of the few who did, two stand out, both lions of the Republican Party.
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Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft told the House intelligence committee yesterday about disputes in the Bush administration over aspects of its domestic surveillance program, which peaked in the March 2004 visit to his hospital bedside by White House officials seeking his change of heart.
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President Bush&#39;s expected Cabinet shake-up began in earnest Tuesday with the resignation of controversial US Attorney General John Ashcroft and longtime Texas friend Don Evans, the commerce secretary.
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NEW YORK, June 14 -- A former detainee is allowed to keep former attorney general John D. Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and others in a lawsuit that alleges  prisoners were mistreated and subject to ethnic and religious discrimination after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a federal ap...
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Departure of Ashcroft, new leadership at Justice a good omen, but war ruling clouds nominee&#39;s chances. President George W. Bush did the right thing in making it clear to Attorney General John Ashcroft that his resignation would be accepted if tendered.
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The resignation of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the lone high-ranking moderate in the Bush administration, is unfortunate. Now anyone could guess that the Bush cabinet&#39;s nominees will be the same hawks, or someone as controversial as Alberto Gonzales.
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It is ghoulish, but two deaths - one at home, the other abroad - are about to reveal the true face of George Bush&#39;s second term.
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President Bush is moving swiftly toward naming a successor to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has emerged as the leading candidate for the job.
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It is uncertain just how history ultimately will judge Yasser Arafat, the erratic but charismatic Palestinian leader who died this week in Paris at age 75.
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One element of Barack Obama's varied heritage has remained obscure - until now.
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Posted November 10, 2004 -- Not more than 24 hours after John Ashcroft resigned his position as Attorney General, President George Bush has named Alberto Gonzales to fill Ashcroftâs shoes and become the first Hispanic to serve in the position.