Ideal candidate would be a 1st year law student with no experience, hoping to make a name for him/herself by charting unexplored Constitutional ground.
What is a "writ of duchebagary" and how does one invoke it?
"Daily Show clip: Stewart, Durbin, and Biden tear Ashcroft a new one."
Here is a fascinating article about how Crashcart got chosen as AG, after losing his Senate seat to a dead man.
It's also terribly interesting to watch neocons spin this editorial.
WANTED: Enterprising Criminal Justice major to develop and test Frog Marching procedures.
Question: Who is tasked with investigating the outing of a CIA operative? -- John Ashcroft
Ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson at Democracy Now, about who was behind the smear campaign against him and his wife.
At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frogmarched out of White House in handcuffs. (cheers and applause) And trust me when I use that name, I measure my words.Oh my god, we are so totally screwed! Why, oh why, didn't I take the BLUE pill?!
President George Bush's closest political adviser, Karl Rove, was yesterday at the centre of a criminal investigation into allegations that he leaked the name of a CIA agent in an attempt to suppress criticism of the administration's Iraq policy, in what is fast becoming the administration's worst scandal since coming to office.
Deep political ties between top White House aides and Attorney General John Ashcroft have put him into a delicate position as the Justice Department begins a full investigation into whether administration officials illegally disclosed the name of an undercover C.I.A. officer.
Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, whose possible role in the case has raised questions, was a paid consultant to three of Mr. Ashcroft's campaigns in Missouri, twice for governor and for United States senator, in the 1980's and 1990's, an associate of Mr. Rove said on Wednesday.
No Democratic presidential candidate has missed the chance to denounce him in the most censorious terms, from Howard Dean ("John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy") to John Kerry (a crowd "of every creed, every color, every belief, every religion" is "John Ashcroft's worst nightmare"). In November, Al Gore, standing before a cheering crowd of 3,000 in Washington's Constitution Hall, declared that the USA Patriot Act—drafted under the auspices of the Justice Department and passed in the aftermath of 9/11 to strengthen America's defenses against terrorist attacks—should be repealed and that the Bush Administration's treatment of aliens after 9/11 "was little more than a cheap and cruel political stunt by John Ashcroft." Intellectuals have been no less scathing in their denunciations. Gore Vidal declared recently that "the Founding Fathers ... would have hanged anybody who tried to get [the Patriot Act] through the Constitutional Convention," adding that Ashcroft was part of an "alien army." "Many conservatives are sorry they ever supported former Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft's appointment as attorney general,"
