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...many argue, they died for freedom. They died for the American way of life. There are two problems with this argument. First, American freedom has been weakened since the attacks by Attorney General John Ashcroft and his lackeys. Citizens were prepared to give up some liberties for the sake of safety, but those few liberties have turned out to be the most sacred. American citizens have been arrested and held in isolation by the government as “enemy combatants,” a legal fiction that has somehow trumped the Constitution. Other Americans have been singled...
...weeks after the World Trade Center fell, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was designed "[t]o deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more than 1,200 people in the U.S., Americans and foreign nationals, in the name of the war against terrorism. Most were picked up on immigration violations...
Meanwhile, rumblings of concern are coming from some of Washington's more influential precincts, where not everybody is happy with Padilla's incarceration. Senator Tom Daschle has publicly questioned Ashcroft's motives for waiting an entire month before informing the public of Padilla's arrest. Senator John McCain has called on the Attorney General to explain his rationale for detaining Padilla--after all, if the feds have enough evidence to charge Padilla formally, why don't they do it? Intelligence officials have acknowledged that Abu Zubaydah's reliability is uncertain at best, and an Associated Press report in August...
...mint has been made. The Feinberg Group, with offices in New York City and Washington, is one of the top mediation practices in the country, and Feinberg has been known to receive seven-figure fees for his expertise. When Attorney General John Ashcroft asked him to be the special master of the compensation fund in December, Feinberg accepted pro bono...
FIRED. STEVEN HATFILL, 48, biological warfare expert named by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in August as a "person of interest" in connection with last year's deadly anthrax mailings; from his research job at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge. Hatfill, who has not been indicted or even named as a suspect, says his "life has been completely and utterly destroyed by Ashcroft and the FBI." The university insists that in sacking him it is "making no judgment as to Dr. Hatfill's guilt or innocence regarding the FBI investigation...