Ashcroft Slapped for Rights Violation
from the pesky-Bill-of-Rights dept.
The L.A. Times has the story of a federal judge’s dismissal of perjury charges against Osama Awadallah, a Jordanian college student, and the judge’s ruling that the FBI erred in holding numerous innocent people in jail (in Awadallah’s case, for nearly three months) as “material witnesses” in its 9/11 investigation. John Ashcroft, speaking at a press conference in Washington, criticized the ruling, saying, “I’m the Attorney General of the United States, for Christ’s sake. I’ll jail whomever I damn well want to. If Judge Scheindlin doesn’t watch herself, next time there’s a terrorist attack I’ll throw her ass in jail.”
