John Ashcroft

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During 2001-2002 Attorney General Ashcroft, who is spelled "John A$hKKKroft" on many political websites, became one of the top suspects of 911Skeptics of having advanced knowledge of the Sep11th attack, which he never confirmed. In April 2002, attorney Barbara Olshansky of the CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights) announced to file a lawsuit against Ashcroft because of his "Terror Database" and charged widespread abuse of Middle Eastern men detained on immigration violations after September 11.(See Missing Detainees) During 2002, Ashcroft was still involved in another ongoing grand jury investigation of some undisclosed payments of Exxon and BP Amoco. Source: http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/business/articles/eav032602.shtml

"Two grand juries have been investigating allegations that ExxonMobil, the world's largest corporation, and BP Amoco paid cash bribes to the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and his oil minister, Nurlan Balgymbayev, and that Mobil engaged in an illegal oil swap of Kazakh oil through Iran in 1997. Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force - now the center of a constitutional battle over the release of its records - was meeting representatives of both companies after the grand juries had been empanelled as a result of information received from a Middle Eastern source in 1997 and inquiries from Swiss banks in 1999.

Exxon-Mobil was the single largest oil and gas contributor to Ashcroft's 2000 Senate race, donating $11,650 - $4,140 more than Enron - as disclosed by documents obtained from the Center for Responsive Politics. Other oil industry donors to Ashcroft's campaign which are heavily invested in Kazakhstan, or which represent firms that are, include Chevron ($7,500), Enron ($7,499), The Independent Petroleum Association of America ($5,000), BP Amoco ($4,000) and Halliburton ($3,500). Thus, the total reported corporate donations to Ashcroft's campaign, from firms with known vested interests in opening Kazakh oil fields, totals $39,149. Taken together, these contributions (which exclude soft money donations reported only to the Republican Senatorial Committee) would rank second only to Enterprise Rent-a-Car as Ashcroft's biggest 2000 contributor." Source: http://copvcia.com

(->) The role of John Ashcroft regarding the September 11th attacks and possible prior knowledge and even "ignored warnings on purpose" (See Robert Wright) was topic of many 911-investigative websites during 2001-2002. Based on the so called "Ashcroft Flying High"- story (->), it was implied, that Ashcroft knew about pending attacks, but was obviously coherced to ignore them. On September 11th, 2001 John Ashcroft was in Milwaukee, at Sen. Arnold, R. Wright. One day before, senior Pentagon members were not allowed to fly the following day. But Colin Powell was allowed to fly to Chile and Ashcroft took his plane to Milwaukee.

On August 19th, 2002 JSonline reported, that U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner said he'll play hardball with Attorney General John Ashcroft over a congressional demand for detailed information about the Patriot Act, the post September 11 law giving the government broad powers to investigate terrorism. 50 written questions about the act raised by the House Judiciary Committee in June. 

If the committee still doesn't have the answers by then, Sensenbrenner said, he may take the unusual step of issuing a subpoena to Ashcroft to force him to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which Sensenbrenner heads. The 50 questions about the Patriot Act from both Republican and Democratic committee members include how many times the Justice Department has obtained wiretaps and other devices that can track a suspect's phone calls and e-mails.

At the end of 2002, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Alliance of Iranian-Americans (AIA), Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the National Council of Pakistani-Americans (NCPA) filed a class action lawsuit against Ashcroft and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The lead attorneys in this case are Peter A. Schey and Carlos R. Holguin of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. (-> Detainees)