"I'm not going to be somebody's bitch in prison. George and Dick told me to do it!"
A US court has paved the way for the indictment of former President George W. Bush's Attorney General, John Ashcroft, over his 'wrongful' judgments.
The three-member legal panel of the 9th federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a statement on Friday, which holds the former Attorney General liable for the illegal detention of suspects captured in the wake of the September 11 incident in which a number of US government and financial centers came under attack.
The US court denounced the exploitation during Ashcroft's tenure of so-called material witnesses, terror suspects kept in custody without immediate charges, as "repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history."
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