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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (421669)	7/2/2003 8:37:02 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I agree with you. One of the SADDEST things to me in the Clinton Administration was Janet Reno's capitulation to Clinton. I knew her sister well enough to know something about the family. They were TRUE pioneer stock and HOW Clinton was able to Castrate Janet I will NEVER KNOW. She was a tough one in her youth. jdn

To: PROLIFE who wrote (421669)	7/2/2003 1:37:29 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

John Ashcroft is vying for the title of single greatest threat to liberty. Just a small sample below of one of the most astonishing chapters in American civil liberties: Ashcroft's attempt to suspend Habeas Corpus. Reno was pristine compared to this guy. BY ROLAND WATSON THE Bush Administration sought the power to suspend all suspects' rights in the most extreme example of its squeeze on civil liberties since September 11. According to a draft of the anti-terrorism Bill which was published yesterday, John Ashcroft, the Attorney-General, initially wanted to do away with the fundamental legal tenet of habeas corpus for terrorist suspects. Such a move would have allowed the authorities to hold suspects in secret and indefinitely without charging them or producing them before a judge. A secret first draft of Mr Ashcroft's Bill included a section titled "Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus". Its inclusion has astounded some members of Congress. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told Newsweek magazine: "That stuck out like a sore thumb. It was the first thing I crossed out." Habeas corpus establishes the requirement on authorities to produce a suspect before a judge at regular intervals so that the court, and therefore the public, is satisfied that the detention is lawful. The suspension of the writ did not make it into the final draft of Mr Ashcroft's Bill but it was seized on as another example of how far the Administration is prepared to go. Mr Ashcroft faces a grilling on Capitol Hill this week for other measures in his postSeptember 11 crackdown, in which thousands of young Muslim men have faced questioning and detention. It was also revealed over the weekend that he wanted to renounce the restrictions on the FBI from carrying out covert surveillance of religious and political organisations. The proposal would override protections put in place in the 1970s after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, the notoriously hardline FBI Director, after the agency admitted that it had spent much of the 1960s and early 1970s spying on Martin Luther King, the Black Panthers, the Ku Klux Klan and other groups that it considered dangerous. Latest polls show that the average American is broadly supportive of the restrictions on civil liberties: 86 per cent believe that the Government has not overstepped the mark.