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Hersh reserved his most intense attacks for Attorney General John Ashcroft...
...press conference last week - to "protect and defend the Constitution" of the United States. It's good that the Constitution is in the forefront of his mind. It should stay there. It should be engraved on his shaving mirror. It should be embroidered on Attorney General John Ashcroft's bath towels...
...shirts or leave. The lawyer refused, and was charged with trespassing. At high schools across the country, some students were threatened with suspension if they cut classes in order to participate in antiwar demonstrations. The incidents caused a stir, but were insignificant compared with the damage that the Ashcroft Justice Department has inflicted on American freedom since 9/11--a zealot's agenda of illegal detentions, denials of due process and invasions of privacy. If the war on terrorism is open-ended, that means "emergency" measures to combat terrorism can go on indefinitely. That way lies the police state...
...pages of new laws—and new freedoms for the Department of Justice—is a little noticed modification in Section 215 that gives federal officials unfettered clearance to library and bookstore records on individual patron loaning and buying habits, even without probable cause. Attorney General John Ashcroft has refused to release even aggregate statistics about the number of times Section 215 has been invoked, and he has consistently refused to respond to Congressional concerns about minimal privacy standards...
...provide “material support” to so-labeled “terrorist” organizations, regardless if the citizen is involved only in lawful activities. There is no governmental check set up to oversee such decisions either, leaving enforcement of the bill solely up to the Ashcroft and his Justice Department cronies. The severity of this provision is extreme: any one of us, citizens and non-citizens alike, could just disappear. And the public would have no recourse to find out who has been detained and for how long they will continue to be held in secret...