Did John Ashcroft write this law?
Ashcroft is the responsible party, laws written and actions taken by DOJ are "on his watch".
usdoj.gov
He does not have either "deniability", nor can he avoid responsibility.
I'm wondering if ... you and the author are just pissed that he is using the law to catch terrorists.
Why would either one be "pissed off" about catching terrorists?
If you want to catch terrorists, Flight 93 tells you it is citizens of this country who will do that job. The government is clearly incompetent and corrupt. Worse, the current administration gains by not catching OBL, and by the extension of hostilities worldwide. This isn't to say they are the cause --- it simply points out a nasty conflict of interest. They gain financially and politically from conflict and from not finding OBL.
Bottom line: the terrorists are not being caught.
DOJ, FBI, CIA and other intel agencies have been themselves criminally incompetent in their monumental failures to "connect the dots" between their acquisition of intelligence over the past year and a half and their use of it.
It does not require new laws.
It requires firing all of the criminally incompetent leadership including Ashcroft and the administration leadership, much of the corrupt organizational leadership, and much of Congress for failing in its oversight.
These bozos have but one initial reaction to monumental failure:"Give us more money!". The second reaction is:"We need more laws to hide what we are doing !"
This particular insidious law is designed to track all American residents, citizen and non-citizen, by the books they read.
Is that a good way to catch terrorists, or simply a way to impose defacto thought police?
Why are they making it a crime to report that they have even looked at book lists being read?
You figure it out.
It's pretty obvious to the author. |
