Word: ashcroftã
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...still be planning terrorist attacks, and the FBI wanted to find out what kind of firepower they had. The federal government keeps records of gun purchases for 90 days after the background check, and a limited search found that at least two detainees had recently bought guns. But John Ashcroft??s Justice Department has forbidden the FBI from examining the rest of the records and is now trying to have them all destroyed...
...dismissive of fundamental liberties and of the right to privacy in all other walks of life, Ashcroft seems determined to protect the privacy of gun owners—even if they’re members of al-Qaeda. In the words he used before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft??s decision may not give pause to America’s friends, but it quite literally “gives ammunition to America’s enemies...
From the Bush administration’s insistence that this is a time of war, despite the absence of a Congressional declaration, from which the power to conduct military tribunals is apparently derived to its outright abandonment of Attorney General John Ashcroft??s promise to stop racial profiling it is clear that the Bush administration is willing to distort reality to perpetuate its narrow political vision. A vision of exclusivity, corporate welfare and stifled dissent that is wholly antithetical to this nation’s spirit...
...Ashcroft??s regulations trample over this constitutional protection by discouraging inmates from having fully open conversations with their defense attorneys about the circumstances of a case, preventing the attorney from giving the most appropriate legal advice possible. For instance, the accused might be less inclined to share information with their counsel that would clear their name in a particular case if this information might possibly incriminate them in a lesser or different offence...
...It’s a huge problem,” said Flynt, citing U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft??s legislation proposals as an example of such moves to restrict freedom...