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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: jlallen who wrote (374622)3/19/2003 8:24:27 PM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
A quote from the article:

"Beyond his predilection to want to control as much as he could, some on his own staff thought that another reason Ashcroft hadn’t “scrubbed” the bill beforehand was that he didn’t appreciate the significance of the prosecutor-written laundry list he was proposing. Although Ashcroft is a graduate of the highly regarded University of Chicago Law School and a former Missouri state attorney general, even some of his own deputies at Justice were surprised by how uninterested he was in the niceties of the law. One veteran staffer recalls that through six different meetings on this bill and another key legal initiative, he had never once heard Ashcroft cite a legal case and had watched him blanch when someone in the room cited a case, as if that person was discourteously speaking another language. Whether it was lack of interest or lack of intellectual firepower, the Attorney General seemed not to appreciate the complexities of the constitutional issues he was dealing with."

Ashcroft rips at the Constitution, attempting to bend its meaning to suit his 'needs'. His position is not only uninformed (as to the original meaning of the Constitution), it is inconsistent. While advocating enormous freedoms to wiretap and read emails of anyone with a Middle Eastern-sounding name, he explicitly protects their privacy as to whether they own guns at all. A hugely undefensible contortion of logic. Don't you think it might be interesting to see which one of these 'suspected terrorists' might have an arsenal?

Guess Ashcroft isn't as informed as he should be. Maybe he should read the Constitution; specifically, the 4th, 5th, and 14th amendment?
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