Ashcroft’s Deputy Opposed Parts of Spy Program

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Ashcroft’s Deputy Opposed Parts of Spy Program

Posted on Jan 1, 2006

Two of Bush’s most senior advisors made an emergency visit in 2004 to a hospitalized John Ashcroft to get him to override his deputy and sign off on a continued warrantless domestic surveillance program. Read the story

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