This was a lesson that John David Ashcroft absorbed as a Pentecostal minister's son reared in an Assemblies of God congregation in Springfield, Mo. The moral was clear: Never waver, never doubt ...
Don't let them fool you, folks: They knew. They might have been surprised by the ferocity of the attacks, but the highest-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration knew before Sept. 11 ...
John Robert "Jay" Ashcroft (born July 12, 1973) is an American attorney, engineer and politician serving as the 40th and current Secretary of State of Missouri since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he is the son of former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.. As Missouri Secretary of State, Ashcroft pushed for stricter voter identification laws, making several unsubstantiated claims ...
State of Missouri Official. John Ashcroft entered the world of politics in 1972 by running for a congressional seat in Missouri which he lost to Gene Taylor. From there, he was appointed as the State Auditor by Missouri governor Kit Bond. He lost the position two years later in 1974 to George W. Lehr stating that Ashcroft was not cut out for the job as he is not an accountant.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ J. Robert Ashcroft, a retired college president and father of freshman Republican Sen. John Ashcroft, died Thursday, a day after watching his son take his oath of office in Washington. He was 83. Ashcroft had returned from Washington and was visiting another son when he became ill. Ashcroft was president emeritus of Berean College of the Assemblies of God.
John Ashcroft announced right after 9/11 that he was going to use every law within his power, including immigration law , to lock up suspected terrorists, keep them off the streets and prevent the next terrorist attack from occurring.
What John Ashcroft did was try to get into place tools and procedures whereby we can discern the terrorist plots and then act to interdict those plots and disrupt them before they actually foment into actual attacks on the American homeland. That is a hallmark of his leadership, this transformation.
The Palmer raids was after World War I and the red scare whereby there was a massive round-up of aliens suspected of communist sympathies and plans against the United States.
What the Department of Justice sought to do was recreate the metaphorical neighborhood by looking at individuals who are from countries where al-Qaida's are active, who will fit the profile whereby they would have the same characteristics that they would obtain information about al-Qaida and sought their help voluntarily.
First of all, the inspector general was very, very clear, and by the way, that report was authorized and required by the USA Patriot Act in order to accumulate allegations of abuse.
There need not be terrorist laws, but because there is no constitutional, legal or moral duty to violate the laws in the United States, if they do violate, we can put them in jail. That's what John Ashcroft did.
DAVID COLE: I think John Ashcroft essentially repeated the Palmer raids. I think you can call them the Ashcroft raids. But Attorney General Palmer was lambasted for rounding up 5,000 foreign nationals in the wake of a series of terrorist bombings in 1919.
John Ashcroft announced right after 9/11 that he was going to use every law within his power, including immigration law , to lock up suspected terrorists, keep them off the streets and prevent the next terrorist attack from occurring.
What John Ashcroft did was try to get into place tools and procedures whereby we can discern the terrorist plots and then act to interdict those plots and disrupt them before they actually foment into actual attacks on the American homeland. That is a hallmark of his leadership, this transformation.
The Palmer raids was after World War I and the red scare whereby there was a massive round-up of aliens suspected of communist sympathies and plans against the United States.
What the Department of Justice sought to do was recreate the metaphorical neighborhood by looking at individuals who are from countries where al-Qaida's are active, who will fit the profile whereby they would have the same characteristics that they would obtain information about al-Qaida and sought their help voluntarily.
First of all, the inspector general was very, very clear, and by the way, that report was authorized and required by the USA Patriot Act in order to accumulate allegations of abuse.
There need not be terrorist laws, but because there is no constitutional, legal or moral duty to violate the laws in the United States, if they do violate, we can put them in jail. That's what John Ashcroft did.
DAVID COLE: I think John Ashcroft essentially repeated the Palmer raids. I think you can call them the Ashcroft raids. But Attorney General Palmer was lambasted for rounding up 5,000 foreign nationals in the wake of a series of terrorist bombings in 1919.