January 10, 2006, 9:48am Eastern
In a break from 30 years of tradition, former Attorney General John Ashcroft now pimping his services as lobbyist for private homeland security services at a rate of more than one million dollars a year
Former associate attorney general John Schmidt: "To take the kind of prestige and stature of the attorney general [and lobby]... It seems a little demeaning of the office, honestly."