An ounce of detention: Bush and Ashcroft's troubling "paradigm" is anything but a cure for terrorism.(Special Report: Taking Liberty)

IN STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MINORITY REPORT, SET IN THE not-all-that-distant future, police in Washington, D.C., have hit upon a way--through the enslavement of psychic visionaries to predict and prevent future crimes. Would-be criminals are apprehended before they actually break the law and are punished for their intent to do so. But as one might expect, things go awry when one officer learns that the psychics' visions can be manipulated, and an innocent man is implicated in a future murder he does not intend to commit.

Neither President George W. Bush nor Attorney General John ...

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