Only in Amerika - Chapter 4

“The New Gauleiter of the Beltway --John Ashcroft

By Al Martin www.AlMartinRaw.com 12-21-01

Attorney General John Ashcroft has finally admitted that the Department of Justice is not maintaining any centralized records of the people that the United States is currently detaining.
After the ACLU filed a lawsuit to try to force the Bush Administration to disclose the names and whereabouts of the people that are being held, Ashcroft admitted that the Department of Justice was purposely not maintaining any centralized records, and that in fact he didn't know how many people were being held or how they were being held. Senator Patrick Leahy told him that "You're the attorney general and you are supposed to know where detainees are being held." At that point, Ashcroft admitted, "I have no idea."
Then Ashcroft held up a notebook in a zip-locked baggy that was supposedly seized from Osama bin Laden's hideout. He held it up and said. "Here is further proof of Osama bin Laden's involvement." And Senator Leahy asked him, "How do we know this is further proof, since you won't allow any members of Congress to look at it?"
Leahy then pointed out that when the Department of Justice first started to leak information to the British about Osama bin Laden's capability. The British put it out, but then they couldn't back it up because they weren't given enough information. Then Leahy accused Ashcroft, the new Gauleiter of the Beltway, of not presenting the American people one shred of evidence linking Osama bin Laden and all his supposed confederates to the World Trade Center bombing. It got his gander up, and Ashcroft said that "the United States Government isn't going to compromise any potential prosecution." That was after Leahy got his anthrax envelope, of course. They irradiated it and decided not to open it.
Isn't it funny to note that Leahy got his anthrax envelope and Senator Daschle got one too? All of the most powerful Democrats, the committee chairmen, are the only ones who seem to be getting these things. There aren't any Republicans that get them. (After his comments, however, Dan Burton might be the first one.)
By the way, the Republicans have stated that they will be taking weekends off until the end of the congressional session -- despite the hearings and legislation that they want to get passed. Congressman Charles Rangel pointed out that they want to force the Democrats to chair these committees. Later on, the Bush Administration can say that during these investigations, of course, they were conducted by Democrats. And that is the aim of the administration -- to be able to blame it on "Democratically controlled committees," despite the fact that the committees are actually Republican controlled.”

“G. W. Bush is destroying American values. But then, so is every republicanwho would like to turn this country into a Nazi state.”

“Again with the fake roseymonster.”