Power Grab 2001: "Criticizing Ashcroft is aiding the enemy"
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAEI966YUC.html Ashcroft Says Those Questioning Administration's Anti-Terror Plan Could Be Aiding Enemy By Karen GulloAssociated Press Writer Published: Dec 7, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General John Ashcroft said trying Taliban members in open U.S. court could create "Osama TV." He defended military tribunals for terrorists and suggested that anyone who criticized them was aiding the enemy. Our legal powers are targeted at terrorists," he told the committee. "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve." <snip> White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Friday that criticism can hurt the anti-terrorism fight if it undermines anti-terrorism legislation pushed by the administration. <snip> "The attorney general's implication is clear. If you do not march in lock step with the government, you are supporting the terrorists," the Center for National Security Studies said in a statement. ----- Got polychrome methylene blue?
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