All posts tagged "Bush-Era"

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, a controversial and polarizing figure from the Bush-era, will lead the U.S. private security firm Xe Services, Inc. in determining its ethics policies going forward, according to report by Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine.

In a rare blistering attack on the Department of Justice, a career veteran of the agency recently told Raw Story that the Obama administration handing Bush-era officials "a get out of jail free card” sets “a dangerous precedent" that could encourage other offenses by future leaders.

A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.