The New York Times > Washington > Ashcroft Quits Top Justice Post; Evans Going, Too: "But Mr. Ashcroft's critics were caustic. 'We had an attorney general who treated criticism and dissent as treason, ethnic identity as grounds for suspicion and Congressional and judicial oversight as inconvenient obstacles,' said David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University. 'He was a disaster from a civil liberties perspective but also from a national security perspective.'"

nuff said.