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

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (514644)	12/22/2003 7:21:46 PM
From: Red Heeler	Respond to of 769670

I do speak with my representatives. But to disallow Ashcroft the power he obviously wields is disingenuous. Here's an article on Ashcroft thumbing his nose at the courts you invoke as the watchdog: One person not laughing is U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ruled yesterday that the Justice Department illegally held a Jordanian college student to get evidence. "If the government has a probable cause to believe a person has committed a crime, it may arrest that person," Scheindlin wrote. "But since 1789, no Congress has granted the government the authority to imprison an innocent person in order to guarantee that he will testify before a grand jury conducting a criminal investigation." Ashcroft dismissed Scheindlin's opinion as "an anomaly." seattlepi.nwsource.com How long before Ashcroft dismisses the entire Constitution as "an anomaly?"