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Lebanese art student Salam El Zaatari has been held in solitary confinement for six weeks after airport security found an artist's knife in his carry-on case. His real crime: Being an Arab.
By Christopher Dreher
December 11, 2001
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Scholars defend the expansive new law enforcement powers -- and say military tribunals are justified.
By Damien Cave and Anthony York
December 6, 2001
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Nobody knows, because the Justice Department isn't investigating violent militants on the right the way it's monitoring Muslims, critics say.
By Anthony York
November 22, 2001
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President Bush and John Ashcroft honor Bobby Kennedy as a tough-on-crime attorney general who fought "evil," but RFK's daughter cries foul.
By Jake Tapper
November 21, 2001
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Activists concerned about a second wave of threats fear the attorney general's antiabortion beliefs are the reason he won't meet with them.
By Anthony York
November 10, 2001
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The so-called Patriot Act of 2001 means the end of American due process.
By Robert Scheer
October 31, 2001
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If all our leaders can do is tell us to expect another terrorist attack, without any further clues or helpful information, maybe they should just shut up instead.
By Scott Rosenberg
October 30, 2001
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President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates.
By Jake Tapper
May 15, 2001
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"If the government can't get it right in this case, how can we rely on it to get it right in any case?" Experts react to the FBI blunder.
By Alicia Montgomery and Fiona Morgan
May 12, 2001
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Donations to Planned Parenthood are flooding in -- in the name of President Bush.
By Dawn MacKeen
February 9, 2001
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Ashcroft is a Confederate! Bush will outlaw abortion! It's easy to see why the public is tuning out the Democratic Party's tiresome hysteria.
By Camille Paglia
February 7, 2001
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By Alicia Montgomery
February 5, 2001
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Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein.
By Alicia Montgomery
January 18, 2001
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Democrats and Republicans take their positions, while the nominee tries to quell doubts about his impartiality.
January 17, 2001
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Maybe he knows White is no more pro-criminal than his own cousin, Missouri Supreme Court Justice Stephen Limbaugh Jr.
By Eric Boehlert
January 17, 2001
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Bush's choice for attorney general might halt efforts to emphasize treatment over incarceration, opponents fear.
By Dawn MacKeen
January 17, 2001
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A segregationist group is banking on the hard-on-crime attorney general nominee to drop a murder conspiracy case against one of its own.
By Joe Conason
January 16, 2001
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If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends.
By Bruce Shapiro
January 16, 2001
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Although his arrest for growing 60 plants could have landed him in federal prison, Alex Ashcroft was tried in state court and avoided jail, despite his uncle's crusade for tougher federal drug laws and mandatory prison sentences.
By Daniel Forbes
January 12, 2001
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In a pugnacious appearance, right-wing groups serve notice to "liberal ideologues" that there's a new sheriff in town.
By Alicia Montgomery
January 11, 2001
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Fearing a return to the days of James Watt, green activists mobilize to spike Bush's environmental nominees.
By Anthony York
January 11, 2001
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January 9, 2001
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He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat.
By Eric Boehlert
January 8, 2001
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The left's efforts to tar and feather Ashcroft and other conservative Bush appointees are as unfair as the smear campaign waged against Clarence Thomas 10 years ago.
By David Horowitz
January 8, 2001
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Liberal Democrats are gearing up to oppose the president-elect's most conservative choices. Here's a list of the most vulnerable nominees, and their enemies.
By Alicia Montgomery
January 5, 2001
The nightmare
Playing both sides
Round 1: Ashcroft on the offensive
Can John Ashcroft be stopped?
Ashcroft's nephew got probation after major pot bust
Baked Alaska?
John Ashcroft's big mistake
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