Ashcroft is Out
p2pnet.net News:- US attorney general John Ashcroft has resigned from the Bush administration saying, “The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.”
During the year, under Ashcroft, the US Department of Justice and FBI have worked diligently with Hollywood to guard and enhance its bottom line, releasing the report of the DoJ’s Intellectual Property Task Force set up on March to “examine all aspects of how the Department handles intellectual property issues and report on proposals for future activity” .
As RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boss Mitch Bainwol remarked recently, the DoJ’s , “commitment of focus, energy and resources outlined in this report is music to our ears”.
“We had an attorney general who treated criticism and dissent as treason, ethnic identity as grounds for suspicion, and congressional and judicial oversight as inconvenient obstacles,” David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University is quoted as saing in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story.
“He was a disaster from a civil liberties perspective but also from a national security perspective.”
Speculation about Ashcroft’s successor has centered on his former deputy, Larry Thompson, who recently took a job as general counsel at PepsiCo, says the report.
It’ll be interesting to see where Ashcroft shows up next.
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See:-
worked diligently – DoJ ramps up IP war, p2pnet, October 14, 2004
inconvenient obstacles – Ashcroft, Evans to leave Cabinet, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 10, 2004
November 10th, 2004 at 4:28 pm
He’s caused a lot of damage!
He will likely continue to work for the RIAA since they’ve been paying him off for a long time – he’s been a good little spokesperson for getting RIAA laws and regulatory rubbish passed, walking all over the civil liberties of anyone in the way of his second paycheck.
I really wish he would do jailtime – but I guess the PAC loopholes have kept him save and protected….
_-Jile-_