>> from SLATE's news summary (7/17/08): >> The [Washington POST reports] that the White >> House got angry with former Attorney General John >> Ashcroft . . . [who successfully lobbied against >> appointing John Yoo as DOJ Legal counsel]. * * * >> 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 ?!?
I haven't read the Slate or Wash. Post piece, but did read about this episode in Jane Mayer's recent book -- "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" -- in which Mayer's take is less that Ashcroft was exhibiting "moderation" (whatever that means) and much more that he didn't like Yoo and, more importantly, that is was a turf-war issue, i.e., that Ashcroft didn't trust Yoo and found annoying/troubling that Yoo communicated/dealt directly with the White House (e.g., Addington) thus by-passing Ashcroft as (putatively/nominally) Yoo's boss, and Ashcroft didn't want that to continue.
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