Criticism of Ashcroft Over Moussaoui Case
Conservative legal affairs writer Stuart Taylor joins the chorus of those criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his unfair tactics in the Zacarias Moussaoui case:
But Attorney General John Ashcroft seems so eager to kill the man that he would shoot a hole in the Constitution to get him. Ashcroft wants to put Moussaoui on trial for the capital crime of complicity in the 9/11 plot, without letting his lawyers take the testimony of three captured Qaeda leaders who may have told interrogators that Moussaoui did not participate in it. That's the watered-down notion of justice that an Ashcroft subordinate urged a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., to endorse on December 3.
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