[Pen-l] proof that everything is relative in politics

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE's news summary (7/17/08):
>The [Washington POST reports] that the White House got angry with former Attorney General John Ashcroft when, in search of someone to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, he sent over a list of five candidates that the administration didn't like. Although all the lawyers that Ashcroft suggested were Republican, the White House wanted a definite loyalist who would legally justify the continued use of harsh interrogation techniques. The administration wanted Ashcroft promote John "torture memos" Yoo, but Ashcroft refused. In the end, they chose a compromise that didn't work quite as planned because the lawyer they chose challenged the administration and its justifications for the coercive interrogation methods. The Post says this information is another example of how Ashcroft "is coming to be viewed as a voice of moderation on some of the most sensitive national security issues the nation faced after Sept. 11."<

Ashcroft a moderate?!?
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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