FC: Nat Hentoff: Time to call for John Ashcroft's resignation

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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"Ashcroft's plan for detention camps for 'enemy' U.S. citizens"
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http://villagevoice.com/issues/0236/hentoff.php

   Nat Hentoff
   General Ashcroft's Detention Camps
   Time to Call for His Resignation
   September 4 - September 10, 2002

      Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional and
   public-interest law at George Washington University Law School in D.C.
   He is also a defense attorney in national security cases and other
   matters, writes for a number of publications, and is often on
   television. He and I occasionally exchange leads on civil liberties
   stories, but I learn much more from him than he does from me.
   
   For example, a Jonathan Turley column in the national edition of the
   August 14 Los Angeles Times ("Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish
   Vision") begins:
   
   "Attorney General John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S.
   citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely
   being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace."
   Actually, ever since General Ashcroft pushed the U.S. Patriot Act
   through an overwhelmingly supine Congress soon after September 11, he
   has subverted more elements of the Bill of Rights than any attorney
   general in American history.

   [...]



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