Let's not forget that the chief suspect served Ashcroft in his election bid where he lost to a dead man [suspicious airplane crash], and then went on to help Bush get in office.
Ashcroft has refused to relinquish this to an independent investigation. While claiming he would uphold the letter of the law when named to his current post, he has been named by several sheriffs as stating he would look the other way in Rico-act seizures, where the money was kept when the constitution of his state specified it was to go to schools in the same neighborhoods where money was taken.