ATF and the FBI weren't exactly up front with Reno, she got blindsided by Waco. Hard to run things when your employees lie to you.

The Patriot Act is at least partiall unConstitutional on it's face. It should never ahve been introduced, let alone passed or signed.

Lets hope the SC doesn't roll over and play dead on this one. I have hopes, but several members seem to have way too much "respect" for who apointed them, in spite of the fact that sitting on the Court has a transforming effect on people (Earl Warren for one). Kinda sobers people up, I suspect. Would scare the crap outa me, thinking of the implications of my decisions.

That said, Ashscroft has never been a man to let the law interfere with what God tells him to do -- his reputation in Missouri isn't very encouraging, and his filing of blatantly false arguments with the courts ain't encouraging.

I don't doubt his own personal rectitude, at least on the surface, but his is a zealots life, direct from Heaven, and anyone who disagrees is a demon.

Peter

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