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Most Attorneys General embody only the first half of what their title promises, but not John Ashcroft. Last week he announced a sweeping "wartime reorganization and mobilization" of his law-enforcement troops, converting the Department of Justice into something more like a Department of Antiterrorism. Fewer FBI agents will fight local crimes and the drug war; they will walk the al-Qaeda beat instead. Hundreds of crime fighters at headquarters will be transferred to field offices on America's "front lines." And 10% of the budget--$2.5 billion--will be redirected to counterterrorism...
...been arrested for small offenses. Still others—hundreds, according to the Washington Post—are locked up, not having been charged with any crime, but simply as “material witnesses” to the events of Sept. 11. According to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, they are being held in an effort to prevent more attacks...
...decree, urged on the President by Attorney General John Ashcroft, allows the government to circumvent the legal requirements of a civilian trial (i.e. all that "innocent until proven guilty" stuff) in favor of brisk, clandestine proceedings behind closed doors. No jury, no public hearing. Just swift "justice...
...days immediately after September 11th, for example, Ashcroft issued a decree permitting federal officers to wiretap pretty much anyone for almost any reason, and to detain people for extended periods of time without filing charges. This Tuesday, the Bush administration went to a whole new level when the President signed an emergency order allowing non-citizens suspected of terrorism to be tried in military tribunals...
...intelligence at all. Sources tell TIME that Bush Administration officials are increasingly concerned about nuclear terrorism (see next story), primarily because of the perceived vulnerability of the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. With that in mind, on the same day the alert went out from Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission quietly directed plants to bolster their perimeter defenses. Eleven states have already called up the National Guard to help in that effort. The FAA also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week...