Ashcroft on USAPA “successes”
…The ACLU said the Justice Department also continues to inflate its claims of Patriot Act success. Numerous investigative reports have revealed that while the DOJ prosecuted about 180 cases defined as international terrorism, close to half received jail sentences of less than a year and involved low-level immigration offenses.
The report also highlights the fact that the Patriot Act, touted as an anti-terrorism tool, is frequently used in non-terrorism cases.
There’s just so much wrong with Ashcroft’s latest missive. The report can be read here. USAPA is not a “laser-guided weapon to prevent terrorist attacks” (yup he said that!) but is more like a giant flood that has eroded our basic civil rights and brought us back to the age of Cointelpro. I’m not just making this up folks.