In January 2004, Congress stripped from the FBI the authority to retain firearm background-check records of presumptively legal gun buyers for more than 24 hours. The policy, championed by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, seemed particularly unwise in light of the warnings from Bush administration officials that terrorism could manifest itself in any number of […]
David Lieber
David Lieber worked as a legislative assistant for Senator Dick Durbin on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2000-02, primarily working on crime issues. He is an attorney and a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law.