IP: Ashcroft Defends Antiterror Plan and Says Criticism May Aid Foes

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Perhaps next, critics will be branded terrorists? djf

Ashcroft Defends Antiterror Plan and Says Criticism May Aid Foes

By NEIL A. LEWIS


WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — In forceful and unyielding testimony, Attorney General 
John Ashcroft today defended the administration's array of antiterrorism 
proposals and accused some of the program's critics of aiding terrorists by 
providing "ammunition to America's enemies."

Emboldened by public opinion surveys showing that Americans overwhelmingly 
support the administration's initiatives against terrorism, Mr. Ashcroft 
told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "To those who scare peace-loving 
people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only 
aid terrorists."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/politics/07CIVI.html

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