Ashcroft subpoened records of women...

[Slit Skirt]

...who had late term abortions.....
what the hell......what ever happened to national security??????????

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/opinion/22KRUG.html?pagewanted=print&position=

June 22, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Noonday in the Shade
By PAUL KRUGMAN

n April 2003, John Ashcroft's Justice Department disrupted what appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon — a cyanide bomb — big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.

Strangely, though, the attorney general didn't call a press conference to announce the discovery of the weapons cache, or the arrest of William Krar, its owner. He didn't even issue a press release. This was, to say the least, out of character. Jose Padilla, the accused "dirty bomber," didn't have any bomb-making material or even a plausible way to acquire such material, yet Mr. Ashcroft put him on front pages around the world. Mr. Krar was caught with an actual chemical bomb, yet Mr. Ashcroft acted as if nothing had happened.

Incidentally, if Mr. Ashcroft's intention was to keep the case low-profile, the media have been highly cooperative. To this day, the Noonday conspiracy has received little national coverage.

At this point, I have the usual problem. Writing about John Ashcroft poses the same difficulties as writing about the Bush administration in general, only more so: the truth about his malfeasance is so extreme that it's hard to avoid sounding shrill.

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[veganwitch]

1. bit of old news

they tried to subpoena the U. of chicago and he got SHOT-DOWN!

still spooky nonetheless.

[Slit Skirt]

2. sorry...just saw it today in NY times

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[Slit Skirt]

8. so sorry about that

I posted that in a hurry ..had to leave for work....no excuse but that is why I didn't take care of it immediately

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[TexasSissy]

5. I feel like we're in Nazi Germany, now.

It's shocking.

[Scairp]

6. Never ceases to amaze me

How truly incompetent this man is. What Congress was thinking in confirming this wacko is beyond me, but they really let us all down in doing so.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Ashcroft was allowed to skate

through Senate confirmation hearings because he had until then been a Senate Old Boy