Look What John Ashcroft Is Doing Now ...

JABBS

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:26 AM
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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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cynatnite

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:28 AM
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1. Basically, he can help get them off

That's how I read it.

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ixion

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:29 AM
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2. exactly..

because he has 'access', that's it. :grr:

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JABBS

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:40 AM
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3. he's the first former AG ...

to become a registered lobbyist. nice to know. and his former chief of staff and one other key aide are working there with him.

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JABBS

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Thu Jun-22-06 11:07 AM
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7. you read it correctly.

... and no one in the Bush Administration seems to have a problem with this.

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izzie

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Thu Jun-22-06 10:09 AM
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4. Another Christian showing his true colors.

Just think we may have all the crooks in the country together now.

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JABBS

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Thu Jun-22-06 10:32 AM
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6. LOL

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Fleshdancer

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Thu Jun-22-06 10:12 AM
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5. sad. he had such a promising career as a statue fashion designer

clothing one statue boob at a time.

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leeroysphitz

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Thu Jun-22-06 11:10 AM
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8. Ashcroft will drape a blue curtain of secrecy over the breast

of corruption.

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JABBS

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:23 PM
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9. LOL

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