Ashcroft Discusses New Powers

by Karen Gullo / AP

Fri, Oct 26, 2001 11:28AM

WASHINGTON –– Attorney General John Ashcroft pledged Thursday to use new powers granted by Congress to pursue terrorist suspects relentlessly, intercept their phone calls, read their unopened e-mail and phone messages and throw them in jail for the smallest of crimes.

Ashcroft Discusses New Powers
By Karen Gullo
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001; 7:54 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON –– Attorney General John Ashcroft pledged Thursday to use new powers granted by Congress to pursue terrorist suspects relentlessly, intercept their phone calls, read their unopened e-mail and phone messages and throw them in jail for the smallest of crimes.

Echoing a threat then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy made four decades ago to pursue mobsters for spitting on the sidewalk, Ashcroft said: "Let the terrorists among us be warned."

"If you overstay your visas even by one day, we will arrest you; if you violate a local law, we will hope that you will, and work to make sure that you are put in jail and be kept in custody as long as possible," he said in a speech to the nation's mayors.
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by anti-corporate reposter

Fri, Oct 26, 2001 11:33AM

at the VERY least, could you at least post *more than one* corporate media article so space isn't taken up on the newswire. or make some comments or *something*, so sf imc doesn't turn into the fucking washington post.

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