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Before September 11, 2001, Attorney General John A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t failed to make counterterrorism a priority or to grant the FBI the counterterrorism funding it claimed to need. (See his May 10, 2001, memo here (.pdf)) After September 11th, under the guise of fighting terrorism, Attorney General John A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t and his Justice Department drafted laws and enacted policies that granted sweeping new powers to the executive branch while reducing the powers of the judiciary and Congress and curtailing the rights of the people. To avoid meaningful debate, he capitalized on fears of terrorism and characterized himself and supporters of the new laws and executive branch policies as the true patriots who were doing everything possible to protect their country. In contrast, he accused those who cast doubt on the constitutionality of the new laws and policies of aiding the terrorists.
I thought it might be useful in light of the whining about current U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to re-visit President "W" Bush's disinterest in protecting our nation from terrorist attacks and then his own attack on our freedom and lessening of national security via his own actions and the actions of extremist U.S. Attorney General John A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t. Many of the radical measures pushed forward by Bush/A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t are at the core of the whines about Eric Holder.
Because the software blocked-out A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t when I didn't. Don't know why that happens, but I had to edit the post so that the name appeared in some form. The title of the discussion could not be edited and that's why you see the *****
John ********: Beat by a dead man in his last campaign for the Senate. Boy...that's gotta hurt!
I thought ******** was the worst Attorney General we'd ever had. That is, until I saw the guy who followed him.
And, of course, like nearly everyone else in the Bush administration, he'd gotten SIX student and 1 occupational draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
(Bleeping out his name is just ridiculous! What? Does it look too much like ass?)
I thought it might be useful in light of the whining about current U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to re-visit President "W" Bush's disinterest in protecting our nation from terrorist attacks and then his own attack on our freedom and lessening of national security via his own actions and the actions of extremist U.S. Attorney General John A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t. Many of the radical measures pushed forward by Bush/A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t are at the core of the whines about Eric Holder.
Maybe if the OP were to be intellectually honest he would go all the way back to Janet Reno's legacy as AG under the impeached President Clinton.
Oklahoma City
WACO
Oh wait, never mind, Eric Holder was covering up for his bosses even back then.
I thought it might be useful in light of the whining about current U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to re-visit President "W" Bush's disinterest in protecting our nation from terrorist attacks and then his own attack on our freedom and lessening of national security via his own actions and the actions of extremist U.S. Attorney General John A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t. Many of the radical measures pushed forward by Bush/A-s-h-c-r-o-f-t are at the core of the whines about Eric Holder.
Research Timothy McVeigh's motives for the Murrah building bombing - Waco was right up there at the top.
On the other hand - that is a valid question so long as you are consistent and don't subscribe to the "America deserved 9/11" point of view.
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