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	Why War? Keywords: John D. Ashcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashcroft is noted for having taken offense to the half-naked statues of Liberty and Justice in a meeting room where he often met the press.
		Ashcroft is considered a leading member of the Christian right wing of the Republican party and is one of the highest-ranking representatives of the group in the Bush Administration.
		Ashcroft's opponents have accused him of unnecessarily using the spectre of terrorism as justification for restricting civil liberties.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/John_D._Ashcroft (940 words)

	John Ashcroft
		John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is the current (2001-present) Attorney General of the United States.
		Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois where his family had moved to be nearer to the world headquarters of the Assemblies of God[?] church, part of the Pentecostal fundamentalist movement.
		Ashcroft once claimed that "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Ashcroft.html (417 words)

	John Ashcroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashcroft was previously a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001) and the Governor of Missouri (1985–1993).
		In 1994 Ashcroft was elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri.
		Ashcroft had previously denounced the CCC as racist, after a controversial interview in Southern Partisan magazine in which he expressed views which were widely interpreted as pro-Confederacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ashcroft (2940 words)

	John D. Ashcroft - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		John Ashcroft has spoken at Bob Jones University which until recently has denied admission to people who are in an interracial relationship.
		For a bit of the shock therapy Ashcroft and his fellow travelers seem to need, they ought to consult some of the citizens in the former East Germany who discovered, when looking into their Stasi files, that under the former regime they had been spied upon for years by a husband or wife.
		Ashcroft's informant corps is a vile idea not merely because it violates civil liberties in a narrow legal sense or because it will sabotage genuine efforts to prevent terrorism by overloading law enforcement officials with irrelevant reports about Americans who have nothing to do with terrorists.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php?title=John_Ashcroft&... (422 words)

	Archives - John Ashcroft and Ronnie White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashcroft is a son and grandson of Assemblies of God ministers, a Springfield native who attended Yale and met his wife at the University of Chicago Law School.
		Ashcroft also grilled White about his dissent in a court challenge to a random drug checkpoint; White said he was not opposed to checkpoints in general but was concerned about the way that specific one was set up.
		Ashcroft is taking heat for some seemingly pro-Confederate comments he made in the magazine Southern Partisan; he was also one of two members of a federal commission to refuse to sign a report on the plight of minorities.
	loper.org /~george/archives/2001/Jan/86.html (1994 words)

	Ashcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Ashcroft memo amended a section of the United States Attorneys' Manual that previously said federal prosecutors had to report to the department only those sentences that prosecutors had objected to and wanted to appeal.
		Ashcroft's critics reacted angrily to the memo, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
		In his memo to prosecutors, Ashcroft quoted approvingly from a May 5 speech by Rehnquist in which the chief justice said it was up to Congress to set sentencing policies.
	www.ncadp.org /html/ashcroft.html (886 words)

	Angel Justice : John Ashcroft
		Ashcroft brings his own personal ideological agenda to the job — and it is one that includes a history of supporting racial segregation and opposing women’s rights.
		John Ashcroft has often espoused a belief in State’s rights, and feels that laws governing important aspects of our lives should be decided at the State government level, without Federal involvement.
		John Ashcroft’s religious and historical background, and the role it plays in his political life has been documented by the press.
	www.angeljustice.com /article.php?list=type&type=24 (753 words)

	Ashcroft's Faith Plays Visible Role at Justice
		Ashcroft held similar meetings each morning as a U.S. senator and sees the devotionals as a personal matter that has no bearing on his job as attorney general, according to aides.
		Ashcroft declined to comment on the devotional meetings, and reporters have not been allowed to attend.
		Ashcroft considered a run for the presidency with support from leading Christian conservatives, and has regularly cited God and Scripture in speeches and policy statements.
	www.positiveatheism.org /writ/ashcroft.htm (1500 words)

	John David Ashcroft - SourceWatch
		Ashcroft was a member of Yale University's class of 1964, an honor he shared with James Gustave Gus Speth.
		Ashcroft has been outspoken in his opposition to abortion rights and was cricized by civil rights groups for opposing the nomination of a fl Missouri Supreme Court justice to the federal bench.
		Prosecutor in terror case controversy sues Ashcroft, USA Today, February 17, 2004: "A federal prosecutor in a major terrorism case in Detroit has taken the rare step of suing Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging the Justice Department interfered with the case, compromised a confidential informant and exaggerated results in the war on terrorism.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=John_David_Ashcroft (1182 words)

	Ashcroft Watch
		While Ashcroft was running for reelection to the Senate against the late Mel Carnahan in 2000, he met secretly with a CCC leader named Thomas Bugel to discuss the fate of a CCC member indicted for plotting to murder an FBI agent, among other offenses.
		John D. Ashcroft, President-elect Bush's pick to be attorney general, told graduates at Bob Jones University in 1999 that America was founded on religious principles and that "we have no king but Jesus," according to a transcript of his remarks released yesterday.
		Ashcroft tried to delay and defeat the 1996 nomination of Margaret Morrow, claiming she was a liberal activist who should be kept from the bench because of her efforts to promote pro bono legal work.
	www.bushwatch.com /ashcroft.htm (6702 words)

	John Ashcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashcroft lays out his priorities, which according to one participant is “basically violent crime and drugs.” Freeh bluntly replies that those are not his priorities and he talks about counterterrorism.
		John Ashcroft states that US authorities have “noticed an increase in third country nations (Pakistanis, Palestinians, etc.) using Haiti as a staging point for attempted migration to the United States.
		Attorney General John Ashcroft tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that he will not discuss the contents of the August 2002 memo (see August 1, 2002), recently leaked to the press, nor turn it over to the committee.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=john_ashcroft (4662 words)

	Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft
		Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 9, 1942.
		Ashcroft was elected Governor of Missouri in 1984 and held that post until 1993.
		Attorney General Ashcroft is committed to confronting injustice by leading a professional Justice Department free from politics, defined by integrity and dedicated to upholding the rule of law.
	www.whitehouse.gov /government/ashcroft-bio.html (504 words)

	Ashcroft Gains an Early Lead in Republican Nomination Race
		John D. Ashcroft (R-Mo.),has taken a commanding lead in the battle to win the support of Christian right leaders, eclipsing two better-known rivals in what amounts to the first Republican presidential primary for 2000.
		Ashcroft has wooed this core Republican constituency by taking the lead on a range of issues, from tax cuts for married couples to killing the National Endowment for the Arts, that are top priorities for social conservatives, many of whom are frustrated and angry with the Republican House and Senate leadership.
		Ashcroft has shown no hesitancy calling for support of the traditional two-parent family, for protection of religious expression at home and abroad and standing against abortion in a forthright manner that conservatives have been seeking in their elected officials.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N19/bashcroft.19w.html (457 words)

	VPC - John Ashcroft: The Wrong Choice to Enforce America's Gun Laws
		John Ashcroft is undeniably sympathetic to the positions and policies of the National Rifle Association and the gun industry.
		The shared positions of John Ashcroft and the NRA are hostile to an important mission of the Department of Justice: vigorous and impartial enforcement of our nation's gun laws.
		John Ashcroft would be the first Attorney General in recent history who has been the beneficiary of massive spending by a special interest group with a political agenda that is in direct conflict with the duties of the office.
	www.vpc.org /studies/ashcroft.htm (2420 words)

	John Ashcroft
		Ashcroft's greatest -- uh, let's go with "highest profile" -- accomplishment to date was the rolling back of individual rights by several decades, under the guise of fighting terrorism.
		John Ashcroft may be one hell of a singer, but he's been legally outmanuevered by a madman with virtually no knowledge of the U.S. justice system -- even as Ashcroft is angling to ask for an incease in his already unprecedented power to subvert due process and constitutional protections.
		Ashcroft's office confirms that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft did indeed say, "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/usa/john-ashcroft (2101 words)

	John Ashcroft Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The conventional wisdom was that Ashcroft could be beaten in the primary elections by being dismissed as a zealot on social issues, particularly on abortion.
		Ashcroft, like other Cabinet nominees, is not taking questions from the media, and the Bush transition office did not respond to requests for a comment.
		Having Ashcroft serve as AG is especially important to the conservative movement because he provides a rare bridge between the free-market economic wing of the GOP and the Christers in the social wing.
	www.tylwythteg.com /enemies/Ashcroft/ashcroft.html (6708 words)

	John Ashcroft - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		John Ashcroft's war on terrorism has done enormous damage to our liberties -- and he has few tangible results to show for it.
		Why John Ashcroft recused himself from the Plame case
		John Ashcroft joined the right-wing crusade to smear the 9/11 commission this week.
	dir.salon.com /topics/john_ashcroft (365 words)

	Dossier: John D. Ashcroft - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashcroft's supporters contend that the former GOP senator from Missouri should not be rejected on ideological grounds.
		(Carnahan's wife took the seat.) The son of a minister and a gospel singer in his own right, Ashcroft is a darling of religious conservatives and could face some opposition to his confirmation due to his strong views against abortion rights and gun control and in favor capital punishment.
		Ashcroft got tens of thousands of campaign contributions from Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) as well as other tech companies.
	www.forbes.com /2001/01/16/0116ashcroft.html (646 words)

	Ashcroft's '99 Tactics In Spotlight (The Washington Post)
		John D. Ashcroft (R-Mo.) led the fight to kill Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White's nomination for a federal judgeship.
		Jean Carnahan has not taken a position on Ashcroft yet, but she has hired outgoing Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Roy Temple -- who has accused Ashcroft of engineering "a political drive-by shooting" of White -- to be her chief of staff.
		When President Clinton nominated White to the federal court in 1997, Ashcroft was still considering a long-shot bid for the presidency, and he was criticizing his fellow Republicans on the Judiciary Committee for rubber-stamping too many liberal judges.
	www.jessejacksonjr.com /issues/i010101228.html (2043 words)

	Ashcroft denies he insulted Muslims - News - John D. Ashcroft, Justice Department, United States - Brief Article ...
		After Muslim and Arab-American groups complained vigorously, the Justice Department has denied that Attorney General John Ashcroft characterized mainline Islam in an offensive manner--or that he was quoted correctly by columnist Cal Thomas.
		In an interview Ashcroft had last year with the columnist, Ashcroft was quoted as saying: "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him.
		In an "action alert" the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said February 11 that Ashcroft's office confirmed to its organization that he made the comments but said they were taken out of context.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_5_119/ai_84054076 (293 words)

	Is Ashcroft Guilty of Campaign Finance Fraud? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The date was important because, "as of the 1st day of January, 1999," Ashcroft signed a "list license agreement" with Ashcroft 2000, which gave the Senate campaign committee use of the PAC list, which cost $1.7 million to develop.
		On Tuesday, the FEC announced a "conciliation agreement" under which the complaint was settled when the Spirit of America PAC and Ashcroft 2000 agreed to pay a $37,000 fine for what the FEC said was $112,000 in illegal contributions to the Senate campaign committee.
		Oliver, one of the major participants in the case whose signature appears with Ashcroft's on many key documents released on Tuesday, was deposed by FEC investigators in February.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /weekly_2003/ashcroft_tax_election_fraud.html (1104 words)

	Public Citizen \| Public Citizen Calls for Investigation of John Ashcroft and the Violation of Campaign Finance Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashcroft claims that he – and not his leadership PAC – owns the fundraising list. The public interest groups’ letter argues that if Mr.
		Ashcroft has violated federal law by failing to disclose the fundraising list as an asset on his U.S. Senate financial disclosure forms and that there is probable cause to suspect that Mr.
		Ashcroft may have engaged in tax evasion, by failing to report income earned from the asset on his income tax filings before the Internal Revenue Service.
	www.citizen.org /print_article.cfm?ID=10933 (190 words)

	John Ashcroft, — Infoplease.com
		John Ashcroft - Ashcroft, John, 1942–, American political figure, b.
		John Ashcroft - John Ashcroft George W. Bush's Attorney General Born: 5/9/1942 Birthplace: Chicago, Ill....
		Holy Warrior In the Hot Seat: Devout and steely, John Ashcroft has found a new mission in the battle against terror.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0909419.html (293 words)

	John Ashcroft
		When Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft praised the neo-Confederate magazine Southern Partisan, he was endorsing a publication that defends slavery, white separatism, apartheid and David Duke; a publication that celebrates the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, while delivering a "mixed review" of Lincoln's assassin (Southern Partisan, Second Quarter/1990).
		John Ashcroft is the antithesis of the person required to lead the Department of Justice.
		The nomination of John Ashcroft to Attorney General is a particular poke in the eye to African Americans after Ashcroft's incredibly irresponsible behavior to block the federal judicial nomination of Judge Ronnie White.
	www.knowthecandidates.org /ktc/BushGang/johnashcroftexpose.htm (5014 words)

	Show-Me State Senator Led on Balanced Budget - interview with John D. Ashcroft - Interview Insight on the News - Find ...
		Republican Sen. John Ashcroft of Missouri said he would fight big spenders and save Social Security.
		Two-term Missouri governor John Ashcroft was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 with 60 percent of the Show-Me State's vote.
		Sen. John Ashcroft: The old way of doing business was to focus more and more resources and authority in the bureaucracy and go deeper and deeper into debt.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_41_16/ai_72328765 (919 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		John Ashcroft has resigned as Attorney General, under fire in the media for supposedly violating the human rights of terror suspects.
		Ashcroft is also a man of enduring faith in God, a faith that guided his stewardship of the Department of Justice and that often drove his critics mad.
		Today, John Ashcroft stood tall, showed the warrior that he is, and did this country a great service by giving the best explanation yet about why the US failed to prevent 9-11.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=johnashcroft (4982 words)

	Amazon.com: On My Honor The Beliefs That Shape My Life: Books: John Ashcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Keep in mind that Ashcroft and Bin Laden are one in the same, both give their respective religions a bad name.
		The book lets the reader see how John Ashcroft's life was shaped by his father and his own personal faith.
		In light of the United State's war on terrorism, I found it very comforting to learn that Ashcroft, one of America's leaders in that war, is grounded on a foundation of ethics, morals, and integrity.
	www.amazon.com /Honor-Beliefs-That-Shape-Life/dp/0785266437 (1341 words)

	Government Opposition to Certiorari in Eldred v. Ashcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		JOHN D. Solicitor General Counsel of Record ROBERT D. Assistant Attorney General WILLIAM KANTER JOHN S. Attorneys Department of Justice Washington, D.C. Whether the 20-year extension of the terms of all copyrights, set forth in the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA), Pub.
		John Deere Co., 383 U.S. (1966), Feist Publications, Inc. v.
		Far from creating a conflict with the holding or rationale of Mitchell Brothers, the D.C. Circuit in Schnapper v.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cert/gov-opp-cert.html (5715 words)

	SATI e-News
		Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, at the March 11, 2003 press conference announcing the DNA initiative.
		Perhaps the most notable news about Ashcroft’s announcement is the level of funding proposed and the administration’s apparent commitment to allocate these funds despite a growing federal budget deficit, estimated by the Department of Treasury to be at $193.9 billion, five months into the current fiscal year, without accounting for the current war efforts.
		Prepared Remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft, DNA Initiative, March 11, 2003.
	www.mysati.com /enews/Mar2003/ashcroft.htm (775 words)

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