Ashcroft Reminisces for the Cameras

Yesterday US Attorney General held one of his trademark press conferences. The news? The dramatic, urgent story?! An arrest eight months ago!

Cincinnati Post - Jun 15, 2004 - But a federal indictment announced Monday accused Abdi, a native of Somalia, of being an operative for the terror network al-Qaida whose plans to blow up an unspecified Columbus-area shopping mall were thwarted by his November arrest.

As Paul Krugman notes, "...worst attorney general in history".