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Ashcroft's hypocrisy: it's double-standard time at the new model justice department.(Attorney General John Ashcroft)
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Schrag, Peter
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> THREE YEARS AGO, JOHN ASHCROFT--THEN A senator from Missouri, now the U.S. attorney general--opened a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on gun control by declaring that a citizenry armed with both the right to possess firearms and to speak freely is less likely to fall victim to a tyrannical government than a citizenry that is disarmed from criticizing government or defending themselves." No member of his old committee thought to quote those words back to him when he appeared in December to defend his administration's assertion of sweeping new powers--the creation of ...
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