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Thread #51042 Message #777150
Posted By: Amos
04-Sep-02 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Another Bush War (2) (Bush, Iraq)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Bush War (2)
Nat Hentoff has written for New York's Village Voice since I was a lad.
Here a clip on his current piece, distributed by Declan Mccullough:
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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