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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (206493)	5/21/2007 1:30:15 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) of 793961

Complex is right! You know...........this article is a perfect example of why most people are confused and why the blogosphere is so important. The WAPO has some pretty darned good word smiths very adept at covering their butts, creating news that fits their agenda and dealing with unnamed "officials" "sources" "experts." The two paragraphs below seem to totally contradict one another and leaves one wondering if we are talking about two different men or some schizophrenic paranoid. And on top of it all the WAPO makes sure we all understand that he is (GASP) a member of the "Christian right." Like that has any bearing what so ever on the issue of national security. I just don't trust MSM articles that use these kinds of tactics to make a point. In addition to rejecting to the most expansive version of the warrantless eavesdropping program, the officials said, Ashcroft also opposed holding detainees indefinitely at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without some form of due process. He fought to guarantee some rights for those to be tried by newly created military commissions. And he insisted that Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers, be prosecuted in a civilian court. He championed a broad expansion of government power to investigate possible terrorist cells through the USA Patriot Act, authorized the detention of hundreds without charges in the days after Sept. 11, pushed immigration agents to fully use their power to deport foreigners, secured new authority to peer into private records even in libraries, and oversaw legal interpretations that opened the door to harsh interrogation techniques that critics called torture.

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