Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson
William Asa Hutchinson, Jr.is an American politician who has been the 46th Governor of Arkansas since 2015. Previously he was U.S. Attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas, U.S. Congressman from the Third District of Arkansas, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrationand the first Undersecretary for Border & Transportation Security at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In 2006, Hutchinson was the Republican candidate for governor of Arkansas and lost to Democrat Mike Beebe, the outgoing state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth3 December 1950
CountryUnited States of America
President Clinton said the options and new thinking offered by charter schools would foster competition and innovation that would make ... all of public schools better, and I agree.
We can apply this to our post-9/11 environment, ... because we have not lost our idealism, love of freedom, civil liberty, and commerce-but we do have a very practical task. As the president told Attorney General John Ashcroft at the time, 'Do not let this happen to America again.'
I don't know whether the Attorney General was responding to a question in a news conference, but that's the reason that Homeland Security is the agency that the President has designated to communicate changes in the threat level. And Secretary Ridge addressed that subsequently. I think it goes to show that there's different voices, and, as we have created the Department, we tried to bring that together so there's one focal point of communication as to the threats that we face and how the public is supposed to respond to it, and that's Homeland Security.
The president's own words and admissions, combined with a dose of common sense, support the charges that the president lied under oath,
You don't understand. The president will be calling momentarily. We need your position.
an opportunity for the president to accept responsibility for any false statements.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, in my book that is illegal, and I hate to say it, obstruction of justice by the president of the United States,
Anytime we can have the domestic policy adviser to the president of the United States, we have to take advantage of it. It's important for us to make Arkansas' case to a key person in the administration.
I can certainly say that it was never a consideration in raising the threat level because that's what I was personally involved in. As to whether someone else spoke in terms of trying to get a different reaction, you know, it's a large federal government. But I know in every circumstance, whether it's Justice Department or Homeland Security or the White House, politics was never a consideration from the President on down.
These criminals are leaders and mid-level brokers of Internet drug-trafficking rings. They used the World Wide Web as a worldwide drug market.
The story needs to be told, ... The truth needs to be determined.
We should have been more careful as far as releasing that,
There's not any Lake View issue here. You have to have standards in the state, but to say you can never adjust those standards is unacceptable.
There's not any evidence that these lasers are being used by terrorists. The FBI certainly continues to investigate and look at these fact scenarios. It's also a safety issue that the Department of Transportation would certainly want to look at.