{"id":250,"date":"2004-06-15T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2004-06-15T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T17:38:35","slug":"the-case-against-ashcroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Ashcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event that my earlier stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000245.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000236.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> didn&#8217;t convince you of the fact that Ashcroft is not just a <i>bad<\/i> attorney general, but a <i>disgraceful<\/i> and <i>failed<\/i> one particularly in this time of &#8220;war&#8221;, take a look at Fake Conservative&#8217;s scourge, Paul Krugman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/15\/opinion\/15KRUG.html\" target=\"_blank\">take on Ashcroft<\/a> in todays <i>NY Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It begins with: &#8220;No question: John Ashcroft is the worst attorney general in history.&#8221; And goes on to make a compelling case from there. It&#8217;s well worth reviewing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event that my earlier stories here and here didn&#8217;t convince you of the fact that Ashcroft is not just a bad attorney general, but a disgraceful and failed one particularly in this time of &#8220;war&#8221;, take a look at Fake Conservative&#8217;s scourge, Paul Krugman&#8217;s take on Ashcroft in todays NY Times. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}