Ashcroft being sued for "gross mismanagement" of war on terrorism

[HootieMcBoob]

I don't know how I missed this before. Has anybody else heard about this? It seems like a huge deal to me.

WASHINGTON (AP) A federal prosecutor in a major terrorism case in Detroit has taken the rare step of suing Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging the Justice Department interfered with the case, compromised a confidential informant and exaggerated results in the war on terrorism.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino of Detroit accused the Justice Department of "gross mismanagement" of the war on terrorism in a whistleblower lawsuit filed late Friday in federal court in Washington.

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And there's this bit near the end of the article:

Convertino also accused Justice officials of intentionally divulging the name of one of his confidential terrorism informants (CI) to retaliate against him.

The leak put the informant at grave risk, forced him to flee the United States and "interfered with the ability of the United States to obtain information from the CI about current and future terrorist activities," the suit alleges.

Sounds familiar doesn't it. These bastards don't give a rats ass about fighting terrorism or national security. They only care about their own damn selves. I hope they all end up in a dark prison somewhere very soon.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-17-ashcroft-sued_x.htm

[maggrwaggr]

1. Wow! That does seem like a huge story!

Good god what a loser this Ashcroft guy is.

[ngGale]

2. One would never know they in office were...

ever concerned about terrorism. Only concern: Whistle blowers that might just blow them out of the water.

[rasputin1952]

3. We really need to send these creatures...

back under the rocks they crawled out from under!:grr: :nuke:

[The Traveler]

4. By their rotten fruits, we know them

Depressing thought. Do you think the majority of repubs and Shrub fans think this kind of behavior is OK? Nifty, even? Are that many people really that messed up in the head?

[HootieMcBoob]

5. Do you think this will be reported on any major network news show?

I doubt it very much. Keep America ignorant, that's rule number one.

[The Traveler]

8. Of course it won't be reported!

Argh. Now I have to grab the Ibanez and crank some serious noise to work off the anger. The American people are indeed like unto mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed crap.

[bif]

16. It's being covered by NPR.

Not that that's a major news network.

[RainDog]

6. interfering with the defense of the country...

"Convertino also accused Justice officials of intentionally divulging the name of one of his confidential terrorism informants (CI) to retaliate against him.

The leak put the informant at grave risk, forced him to flee the United States and "interfered with the ability of the United States to obtain information from the CI about current and future terrorist activities," the suit alleges."

Isn't that an offense worthy of gitmo?

in his zeal to nail a guy, isn't Ashcroft as guilty, if not more so, than whoever in the White House leaked Valerie Plame's name to Novak?

it would truly be morning in America if these thugs were put behind bars.

[9215]

15. IMO Ashcroft is trying to derail investigations that he cannot control.

I'll bet Convertino knows about LIHOP/MIHOP.

[Damn Ann the Man]

7. lol...

Ashcroft could just argue that -- by going after such "moral terrorists" as Larry Flynt to energise the fascist base -- he's encouraging God to restore America's veil of protection.

[anarchy1999]

9. Wow! I would say this is big.

The drip, drip, drip is truly seeming to turn into something much bigger than a drip!

HOORAY! :bounce::bounce:

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Whoo-Hoo!!!

[HootieMcBoob]

10. Maybe we should contact the news networks

This should be the lead story on every network and in every newspaper.
:bounce:

[HootieMcBoob]

11. Sounds like a good idea to me!

:kick:

[diamond14]

12. OMG....the entire shrub administration is in complete disarray...

Federal Justice Officials suing Federal Justice Officials....


time to send the shrub BACK to his pig farm....

this is so pathetic and so sad...for OUR once great country to have sunk so low....

[Imalittleteapot]

13. Story was reported on MSNBCs Abrams Report last

night. Does anyone watch it? It was my first viewing. ABC, NBC
and CBS need to pick this up.

[9215]

14. Hottdamn!! Convertino is opening up another angle of attack!!

This is HUGE! There is another topic on this.

Ashcroft has been out of the limelight for awhile this should give him something to worry about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1133212