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...Justice," about the Bush Administration's decision to use military tribunals to fight terrorism [THE LAW, Dec. 10]: As an American citizen, I am protective of my country's security and my civil liberties. What bothers me about military tribunals and other tactics being employed by Attorney General John Ashcroft's office is the question of how long this war on terrorism will last. The U.S. has embarked on a war against a vague, nonspecific enemy. Our goals, while clearly defined, are undeniably broad. This raises the questions of how long the government plans to continue these tactics...
...Noted "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists." JJOHN ASHCROFT, U.S. Attorney General, defending his expanded emergency powers...
...records from recent background checks for 90 days, for (among other purposes) “investigating, prosecuting, and/or enforcing violations of criminal or civil law.” There could be no more appropriate use of the records than to investigate and prevent acts of terrorism. Even if Ashcroft were right and if current law prevented the FBI from using the records, that law can be changed. The Justice Department has repeatedly asked Congress for more flexibility in wiretapping and other matters, and there’s no reason to leave gun purchases...
...International Association of Chiefs of Police has written two letters asking Ashcroft to release the records to the FBI, but the attorney general has turned a deaf ear to their pleas and to those of senior FBI officials. For a man who has been so dismissive of fundamental liberties and of the right to privacy in all other walks of life, Ashcroft seems determined to protect the privacy of gun owners—even if they’re members of al-Qaeda. In the words he used before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft’s decision...
...attorney general’s job is to protect public safety, not the gun lobby. Ashcroft should have told his friends in the NRA what he told the Senate: “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists...