ASHCROFT’S REPLACEMENT….Is Larry Thompson really the least bad choice to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General? Maybe. But over at Body and Soul, Jeanne isn’t happy about it:
….that the “best” choice we have is the man who came up with the idea of calling Anita Hill “delusional” and who signed off on sending Maher Arar to Syria to be tortured says something shameful and frightening about this country.
Or at least about the Bush administration, anyway.
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