John Ashcroft: Patriot, Act 2
A mellower John Ashcroft, or a harsher right flank?
By Dana Milbank - Thursday, June 3, 2010
Remember when John Ashcroft was the man everybody loved to hate?
For the left, he was the demon of the early aughts: patriarch of the Patriot Act, godfather of Gitmo…..
It’s not as if Ashcroft is some sort of squishy moderate.
The difference is that Ashcroft’s rule-of-law conservatism now sounds genteel at a time when so many Republican leaders have gone off in the direction of anti-government hysteria.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/02/AR2010060204238.html