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Screening cargo in airplanes, on the aviation security back burner since Sept. 11, is about to explode off the stove. According to aviation sources, Attorney General John Ashcroft next week will hold his first ever press conference on an aviation security issue. The topic: The high vulnerability of materials placed on the nation's passenger and cargo planes...
...just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.” Truly, here was a maxim that all red-blooded Americans, the heirs of Jefferson and Washington, could rally behind (as long as the rally didn’t annoy John Ashcroft...
Yesterday’s speech, in which Ashcroft mentioned the words “life and liberty” at least seven times, was essentially the same one he has used in several other speeches he has given as part the tour, which some critics are calling a Patriot Act “road show...
According to Ashcroft, the Patriot Act took tools that have historically been available to law enforcement agents to crack down on drug dealers and made them available for fighting terrorists...
...Ashcroft spoke, the chanting and drum-beating of more than a thousand protestors could be heard faintly in the background...