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Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials in the Department of Justice were clearly pleased last week as they announced the big news. Iyman Faris, 34, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Kashmir, had pleaded guilty at the beginning of May to providing material support to al-Qaeda. Not only had he scoped out the Brooklyn Bridge as part of a plot to destroy the New York City landmark, but he had also tried to obtain equipment to help derail a train near the nation's capital. The feds had done more than nab a truck driver from Columbus, Ohio...
...rest of Canada. Democratic presidential candidates are furiously courting gay audiences, while conservative groups are grumbling forebodingly that they might look elsewhere in 2004 if President Bush seems too friendly to gays. Already, these groups have been successful in their efforts to force U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to call off the Justice Department’s office-wide Pride celebration...
...This report confirms my worst fears about the unaccountable Ashcroft Justice Department, that its war on terrorism is just a war on the Constitution and basic human dignities." JOHN CONYERS, Democratic Congressman, on the Inspector General's report showing that the government mistreated hundreds of illegal immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks...
...forbid, if we ever have to do this again, we hope we can clear people more quickly. There is no interest whatsoever that the United States of America has in holding innocent people." JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General, responding to a report in a House committee hearing...
Most of the gains for the gun lobby have been quiet ones. Attorney General John Ashcroft has expanded the government's view of the Second Amendment, stating explicitly that it protects an individual's right to possess and bear arms--a departure from the longstanding view that this right was limited to state militias. Ashcroft has also proposed shortening the length of time the FBI is required to keep records of background checks. He wants it reduced to a single business day; the Clinton Administration required 90. And while the National Rifle Association wasn't pleased with Bush's statements...