COCCO: Fire Ashcroft for clear incompetence

[Search Party]

<snip> This is the track record of the attorney general of the United States. It is, actually, only a brief recapitulation of the more recent depredations John Ashcroft has carried out against justice, on our behalf.

It is insufficient to complain that Ashcroft is unsuitably ideological to be the nation's top law enforcement officer. He is unquestionably incompetent.<snip>

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc143966772sep14,0,3309053.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

[Mandate My Ass]

1. and he committed perjury

before the 9/11 Commission.

[WillyT]

2. And...

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Even the so-called "dirty bomber," Jose Padilla, is now said to have wanted to use not a nuclear device but natural-gas heating systems for al-Qaida attacks on apartment buildings. Ashcroft had bragged of disrupting an "unfolding terrorist plot" involving a radioactive bomb.

In the Padilla matter and others, the Supreme Court has ruled that the sweeping powers claimed by the Bush administration - that a commander in chief in wartime can unilaterally and indefinitely imprison anyone he chooses - violate the Constitution. "We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote.

Ashcroft continues to get a blank check. The president does not fire him, nor even rebuke him for repeated failures. Ashcroft is a resilient beneficiary of that peculiar Bush administration policy that imposes no consequence for mistakes and no punishment for malfeasance.

The trouble is, the attorney general is not the president's personal attorney. He's the public's lawyer and he has failed, miserably, at serving the public. He should step down - in the interest of justice.

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Link: http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=131916&c=96

Thanks Marie!!!