llow his rage. Top people from the Bush White House, the FBI, and the Justice Department almost came to literal blows at the bedside of the ailing AG John Ashcroft—James Comey himself standing in the way of the White House representatives trying to get Ash- croft to renew a domestic surveillance program—with the

ow his rage. Top people from the Bush White House, the FBI, and the Justice Department almost came to literal blows at the bedside of the ailing AG John Ashcroft—James Comey himself standing in the way of the White House representatives trying to get Ash- croft to renew a domestic surveillance program—with th

on Iraq in no uncertain terms, and he has a visceral aversion to international cooperation, be it with NATO or UN peacekeepers in Afghanistan. And John Ashcroft accuses those who opposed the USA Patriot Act of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. These are the views of extremists, not adherents to an open

e few carrying signs were by and large Clinton supporters or Bush administration detractors. Among them: "Big Brother's Watching You and His Name is John Ashcroft," "Butter Not Bombs," "And the Republicans Said We Were Big Spenders" and "Clinton Left Surpluses for our Grandkids." > A solitary protester to Cl

rt. 65 This policy was set forth in a September 22, 2003 memorandum from then Attorney General John Ashcroft regarding “Department Policy Concerning Charging Criminal Offenses, Disposition of Charges, and Sentencing” (known as the “Ashcroft Memo”), which p

as articulated those priorities in policy memoranda issued to all federal prosecutors. As applicable here, on September 22, 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a memorandum regarding “Department Policy Concerning Charging Criminal Offenses, Disposition of Charges, and Sentencing” (Ashcroft Memo). T

eir feelings of being on the side of God by dividing people into those that are like them and good and those that President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft calls the evil doing “bad guys.” As noted previously, psychoanalytic theory posits that the evil doing others may represent the projected repository