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...Since September 11, Pickard has joined Mueller every morning at dawn as the director prepares to brief Attorney General John Ashcroft and President Bush. For the rest of the day and into the evening, Pickard presides over the FBI's Special Investigations and Operations Center, the crisis command center staffed by representatives of the bureau and 32 other federal agencies...
Already on edge, Americans went to bed Monday night with yet another warning hanging over our collective head. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller issued the warning late Monday afternoon, telling the nation there was a "credible" threat of new terrorist attacks over the next seven days...
...discussion. There was some debate as to whether it was a good idea to release these warnings again. Officials got trashed by police departments after the October 11th warning because there was very little lead time and most people had no warning at all. That happened again yesterday; Ashcroft and Mueller made the announcement just before the national news...
...idea of a national ID card system has been around for decades, but the recent terrorist attacks--and an unlikely champion--have given it new life. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Larry Ellison, zillionaire CEO of software titan Oracle, met with Attorney General Ashcroft last week to drum up support for his scheme: all immigrants and consenting U.S. citizens would be issued a "smart card"--like a credit card with a microchip--linked to federal records of their vital statistics, including their thumbprint...
...This government will enforce this law with all the urgency of a nation at war," the President announced as he signed the bill. Urgency is apparently the order of the day: Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters Thursday the Justice Department would begin using the new law "immediately...