Ashcroft's Way
America's top cop has been demonized and lionized. He's a complex guy all right, just not the guy everyone thinks he is
By Chitra Ragavan
Posted 1/18/04
Page 8 of 8
As much as he genuinely admires the men and women who work with him at Justice, that's a charge to which the attorney general, given the burden he feels to help prevent another terrorist attack, just might plead guilty.
ragavanc@usnews.com
Mixed Reaction
John Ashcroft's popularity, up in polls after Sept. 11, 2001, fell as his antiterrorism legal strategies grew controversial.
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With Brian Duffy, Christopher H. Schmitt and Reference Staff
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