Look What John Ashcroft Is Doing Now ...

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's lobbying firm has been hired by General Dynamics to represent it on "trade and defense issues," O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports in its June 15 edition.

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Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, told the New York Times that because Ashcroft had worked only in government, "he cannot claim to have any business expertise."

"What is he selling, other than connections and knowledge of how to game the system from being attorney general?" Brian asked.

Consider this: After helping prosecute executives at Enron and WorldCom, Ashcroft now says he can counsel similar troubled companies to avoid similar fates -- to be "someone who can take threatening circumstances and neutralize them."

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Edit to add photo:




Posted 6/24/2005 7:10 PM
Drapes removed from Justice Department statue

WASHINGTON (AP) — With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.

Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.

The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.

The 12-foot, 6-inch aluminum statues were installed shortly after the building opened in the 1930s.

With a change in leadership at Justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced the question: Would they stay or would they go?

He regularly deflected the question, saying he had weightier issues before him.

Paul Corts, the assistant attorney general for administration, recommended the drapes be removed and Gonzales signed off on it, spokesman Kevin Madden said, while refusing to allow The Associated Press to photograph the statues Friday. ...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-24-doj-statue_x.htm

I hope the statue has been permanently uncovered. I don't remember what happened to it after he left.

Why do you ask?

:hi:

Ashcroft -- who has his former chief of staff and another key aide on his staff -- are laughing all the way to the bank. The fact that he's the first former AG to become a registered lobbyist is being trivialized by the right.

There's a revolving door between government and profiteers. That sort of thing used to be seen as a conflict of interests. Now, it is standard procedure.

They act to enrich themselves, the country be damned.

...Paul Corts, the assistant attorney general for administration, recommended the drapes be removed and Gonzales signed off on it, spokesman Kevin Madden said, while refusing to allow The Associated Press to photograph the statues Friday...

70 year old statues, and suddenly they were risque.

"Let the Eagle Soar...."


..ok, I didn't really think that.

Worst patriotic song ever.

neutralizing corporate criminals. WooHoo !!!

Then again, there's that little karmic woh.

Never mind.

... and what's worse, no one seems to think this is a problem.

imagine the details the former ag is pouring into that company.

because he has first hand knowledge of how government relief can be screwed up and now knows how to prevent it. Bull crap!