Sources on "I can't believe they brought up Massaoui"

Judge Lamberth's impact From "What Went Wrong" in Newsweek May of 2002.

NEWSWEEK has learned there was one other major complication as
America headed into that threat-spiked summer. In Washington, Royce
Lamberth, chief judge of the special federal court that reviews
national-security wiretaps, erupted in anger when he found that an FBI
official was misrepresenting petitions for taps on terror suspects. Lamberth
prodded Ashcroft to launch an investigation, which reverberated throughout
the bureau

I can't find the whole article anymore as Newsweek hides them after a certain amount of time.

Ashcroft shut down wiretaps--Though the article didn't say so in exactly, that is an analysis I assumed. Royce Lamberth did not shut down the wiretaps. He exploded with anger over improper representation of need. (Could some of those taps have been made in regard to trying to find dirt on the former president?) What kind of legitimate or needful criminal investigation would make a District Judge erupt with anger? If you remember Louis Freeh was no friend of Clinton's and, in fact, was working to have the former president removed during his term.

Ashcroft's political ties to militia groups is well known, but I cannot -- at the time of first publication of this post -- get the recorded information that was available when he was first nominated to be Attorney General.

Bio of sorts on Frances Townsend There was a good article in the Washington Post in August about her new job.

RE: Second, as many had pointed out, there was always the option of going back to Congress and asking for more freedom. See this and follow link

More later on this. Work calls.

BTW, of course this was written after the above post. I changed the time on this this post to put it in a better position for the way people read.