[steve50]

Well maybe if they stopped treating Ashcroft & Ridge like bogeymen,

They have all the power they need. Like the gun laws, the trick is to not use the powers you have then demand more.
Once Constitution limits are breeched, you never get the monster back in it's box. If Ashcroft and Ridge aren't capable with the powers they have, they should find another employer.

[Tallguy]

They have all the power they need.

Agree & disagree. Ideally we should be able to stay "within the Constitution." OTOH, most police powers are constantly being challenged. "Profiling", for example, used to be known as "good police-work." It seems to me that we don't have the collective will to defend our society because from Left-to-Right we don't agree on exactly what it is we are defending.