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Ashcroft Justice
Gordon, Diana R. | July 23, 2001 issue

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This article analyses the policies of Attorney General of the U.S., John Ashcroft. In general, Ashcroft has not invoked the hard-right ideology for which he was known as a U.S. senator and governor of Missouri, presumably to allay suspicions that he got his job on the basis of a "confirmation conversion." The selection of experienced federal prosecutors like Richard Mueller to head the FBI, which Ashcroft has moved to rein in, and Michael Chertoff to lead the criminal division seems designed to avoid butting heads with critics who saw him as an extremist.

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ASHCROFT, John; PUBLIC officers; NATIONAL security -- United States; CHERTOFF, Michael, 1953-; MISSOURI; UNITED States
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