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"Most news services & stories have Ashcroft being the 'roastee', not 'roastor'. The stories and commission have not ben very kind to him - from the reports I've seen."

You got that right. You'd think that Ashcroft was char- broiled by the commission if you believe the news accounts. Also, Drudge has a link from MSNBC that appears to implicate Bush for the failure to stop 9/11 from happening.

Bottom line: Your government is broken, it has been for a very long time, and no one cares until it's too late. Apparently, most of us can go through life quite happily as long as the Post Office works and the IRS doesn't. It's only when something catastrophic happens, like 9/11, and the FBI/CIA/NSA/DIA, etc fail horribly, THEN everyone wants the government to be all-powerful, omniscient and capable of warping time and space.

This commission is a farce: it is staffed by those who have a hand in the very policies that stymied, hamstrung, obstructed and prevented the intelligence and law-enforcement agencies from doing their jobs. It is staffed by people who wrote policy for the very agencies it's investigating and criticizng.

The government is in shambles -- the system would still work if it wasn't stuffed to the rafters with lawyers, con-men, opportunists, liars, idiots, party hacks and the hangers-on they bring with them.

But somehow this is George W. Bush's fault. Grow up America, we created this mess and we have to clean it up. We do that by demanding accountability, not just for terrorism, but for every dotted i and crossed t. And then we follow it up at the voting booth.

"Most news services & stories have Ashcroft being the 'roastee', not 'roastor'. The stories and commission have not ben very kind to him - from the reports I've seen."

You got that right. You'd think that Ashcroft was char- broiled by the commission if you believe the news accounts. Also, Drudge has a link from MSNBC that appears to implicate Bush for the failure to stop 9/11 from happening.

These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required,

Duly noted.

will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance

Covering your hindquarters is important . . . if all it cost was four airliners, the twin towers, a wing of the Pentagon, and three thousand lives I guess it was worth it! </sarcasm>

that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.

By declassifying and releasing the Gorelick directive quoted above, Ashcroft renamed the "September 11" Commission into the "Cover-up Commission." The "Kean Commission" is now the "Gorelick Commission." It is about to disappear utterly from the news; it has been outted and is now entirely useless as a propaganda vehicle.