Well, Ashcroft is leaving but look who is replaceing him.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041110/D8694G201.html
I like this the best...
He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.