Ashcroft Opens Security Conference In New Orleans

[funkybutt]

NEW ORLEANS -- A conference on the use of technology to fight crime and terrorism opened Monday in New Orleans with Attorney General John Ashcroft touting the federal government's efforts to dismantle suspected terrorist operations and to build better defenses against car bombs and other improvised explosives.

Ashcroft told an audience of about 1,100 law enforcement officials and industry representatives that the use of technology has been integral to the United States' success.

http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/3763558/detail.html

[markus]

1. My God, if he walks down Bourbon Street

his head might explode.

[Jacobin]

3. I was just thinking the same thing

Maybe he'll get a sign and a bullhorn and try to convert the "wicked" like his brethren do during Mardi Gras!! (Actually, they are there to see the titty flashers, but, hey, its a good excuse)

Last time he sent his goons to New Orleans, they busted (after a ONE YEAR LONG investigation) 12 hookers. Can you imagine. Professor Clueso busted a dozen hookers in New Orleans. Now THAT's what I call a successful war on terra.

[ixion]

2. shouldn't they call this an insecurity conference?

Afterall, that's what security really implies, that the person or group being secured is insecure.

No?

[happynewyear]

4. good advice from New Orleans

For *cough* security purposes, keep your money stuffed in your bosom Ashcrack! Or do you have one? Are you a girly-man too? :evilgrin:

:puke:

:dem: :kick:

[markus]

9. And watch out for the "girls" on Rampart St.

They're not.

And the only thing in your pants that you want is your wallet.

[madrchsod]

5. remember he was chasing down whores

in new orleans after they took power-not the terrorists. oh well, just another day in paradise.

[DemoTex]

8. Yeah. They got a dozen hookers, in New Orleans of all places.

A$$croft crowed about that big sting. Meanwhile, on the Al Queda front ...

[Beetwasher]

6. It's The Brothels

Johnny A loves those places...

[ozymandius]

7. Is he back to catch some more hookers?

He was too busy trying to find hookers in New Orleans

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1374/5_63/107897326/p2/a rticle.jhtml?term=

From April to September 2001, the FBI ran a wiretap on the Knock (N) Shop, a brothel in New Orleans, then busted the prostitutes in a federal crackdown. Missouri's Jefferson City News Tribune declares in a June 9, 2002, article that this "brothel investigation has some wondering why the FBI made a federal case out of it." The paper then asks, "Why the FBI and federal prosecutors so interested in prostitution, a crime normally left to the local district attorney?" According to Senator Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota): "If the FBI can spend resources investigating whether there is prostitution in New Orleans, they ought to be able to find the resources to investigate what happened in this country prior to 9/11."