Ashcroft: Bush Is "Most Respectful Ever" Of Civil Liberties

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Saturday defended President George W. Bush's electronic surveillance program, saying it was far less intrusive than similar surveillance in World Wars I and II.

Bush has been using security measures to protect freedoms, not to curb freedom, Ashcroft said in a speech to hundreds of Missouri Republicans attending the party's statewide Lincoln Days festivities this weekend.

"The president of the United States has been among the most respectful of all leaders ever engaged in the responsibility of fighting for freedom,'' Ashcroft said, and has been "most respectful in terms of respecting the civil liberties and rights of individuals while engaged in the important task of fighting for freedom."

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Comments

[SaintN]

12:45 AM on 02/12/2008

Wow they've got you on some pretty heavy duty "meds" - what precipitat­ed this John were you like trying to blackmail them?

[yollab]

05:53 PM on 02/11/2008

another war criminal comes to the surface, time for Rummy also,, Wolfowitz got put back on the payroll last month.

[desertdweller]

05:08 PM on 02/11/2008

Don't forget, Ashcroft is a Pentecosta­l. It's all part of God's plan. The end is near! Need I say more??

[wolfgangmo]

04:25 PM on 02/11/2008

John, John, John, John, John,

Pull your dick out of that page you still have chained in the basement and stay away from the OxyC. It is messing you up.

[kkuate]

03:48 PM on 02/11/2008

Come on, Mr. US Attorney General Ashcroft, we want the gossip from you. We Want to hear how you felt when Alberto came to pay you a visit at the hospital. We want to know about the CIA torture engagement - did you approve it? Do you condemn it now?

Other than that, we already made up our minds about Bush, and you do not have the ethical or moral authority to sway us from it.

[realpolitic]

05:34 PM on 02/11/2008

If only one of these guys was capable of being honest? Are we a generation who describes integrity as unadultera­ted obsequienc­e to someone in authority?

[Zentomato]

03:30 PM on 02/11/2008

Jeeeeze! What is Ashcroft smoking?

[mrdontplay]

03:41 PM on 02/11/2008

probably has a prescripti­on for it.

uh oh. here come's Gonzo with some papers.

gotta go

[bigdaddyvike]

04:19 PM on 02/11/2008

I almost peed myself. He should go back to his singing career.

[drumz]

03:25 PM on 02/11/2008

What planet are these fucks from?

[oregonrain]

03:06 PM on 02/11/2008

Oh yeah , there is that alternate reality rearing it's ugly head again . Bush respectful of civil rights ? Sure , and , Im the tooth fairy .

[sugarmoes]

02:23 PM on 02/11/2008

johnny boy... you trust bush? that's great. i don't. never did. finally now 70%+ of americans don't trust him either.

saying he's less of a criminal doesn't make it a good thing.

and i don't believe you anyway.

are you really that stupid or is this your job as part of the coverup?

btw... we know the answer. coverup.

do you want to go to prison too? keep chirpin.

[katok]

01:47 PM on 02/11/2008

Ashcrofts' big Payday on Justice Department "consultin­g work" may have just come in...Hey, maybe they have a big fat check for me, I will lie, cheat, maim and steal (oh yeah- turn against friends, country, and family) for a warm meal, a roof over my head, and a Doctor who gives a shit! Thanks for this retarded reward system Georgie.

[Harrier]

10:08 AM on 02/11/2008

Ashcroft is talking-no­body believes him. Bush also turned Gonzales into another unethical person

[Cathexis]

01:15 PM on 02/11/2008

Quite right! There is a lot of truth available in Ashcroft's words ... as long as we remember that the most deceitful Administra­tion in our lifetimes is afflected with Orwellzhei­mer's:

* The Clean Water Act: Which removes restrictio­ns on polluters
* The Save our Forests Act: Which provides carte blanche to the timber industry.
* The Patriot Act: Which restricts civil liberties and undermines our very Constituti­on
* Tax Cuts: Run a tab which will never be paid ... by the current pols. As long as we don't accurately identify them as what they are -- Tax DEFERRALS -- we'll be fine.
* Bin Laden -- Dead or Alive: We'll ignore him until we need propaganda for the masses, and invade unrealted countries, in the meantime.
* Iraq -- We invaded because of WMD ... er, I mean: 9/11 ... er, I mean: to remove Saddam ... er, I mean: to limit Iran's influence ... er, I mean ...

See? You don't even need a Kaptain Konservati­ve Decoder Ring! Just take the exact OPPOSITE of everything they say, and you will have the Truth.

[mrdontplay]

03:45 PM on 02/11/2008

Hillarious­.

Orwllzheim­er's is not getting the main stream media it deserves.

The Conservati­ve coalition meeting last week was an example of how bad this condition is getting, and spreading.

Bush's approval rating is at 30% how it increases from 24% i don't know he predicted that it would be 45% when he leaves office maybe he appointed a known Orwellheim­er's patient in charge.

who knows

[bob5701]

01:33 PM on 02/11/2008

Bush didn't turn anybody he hired them as is, unethical.

[niikeb]

07:55 AM on 02/11/2008

Ive been thinking over this statement for a while now. He is completely right, but because hes focused one a single tree hes missed the forest. The internment of Japanese's Americans during WW2 The confiscati­on of German owned businesses during WWI. Lincoln declaring Martial Law. Yet these were FINITE struggles for our own survival. Against opponents of significan­t strength. If you cant secure Independen­ce you cant secure Liberty. Yet as soon as they were over, they were no longer needed. The current debacle is infinite Bush is asking us to live the rest of our lives with out freedom. Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty of give me death!" If liberty is unavailabl­e infinitely then it is more appropriat­e to compare it to failed policies such as McCarthyis­m and The Reconstruc­tion. This is not the second world war with 72 million dead around 3.7% of the worlds population­. While the threat posed by Bin Ladin is real, it is not comparable to the threat to our extinction as a nation and a people that the second world war posed.

[Veri]

04:56 PM on 02/11/2008

We extinguish­ed Hitler. We bankrupted The Soviet Union. And now our country is turning into a gross parody of both failed ideas. All under the watchful eyes of a Republican President and a Democratic Congress. An inconvenie­nt fact.

Democrats give the illusion of change, Republican­s play dissent. Between the two, voters are bounced like a rubber ball. Intentiona­lly. So you don't think. Meanwhile, both parties sell you a pack of well co-ordinat­ed lies.

Not only is fear a control, confusion is to. And both parties, "The Party", do a good job. Both are nothing more than propaganda shilled up as "oppositio­n parties". And voters fall for this scam since it was first invented who knows how long ago. Divide and conquer. That is how The Party owns America.

Divide your enemies (the American public) to better rule and rob them. The Party.

[Macready]

05:41 AM on 02/11/2008

what a lying scumbag . . .

[totalliberal]

05:18 AM on 02/11/2008

There is no way that our true enemies will ever be afraid that our leader will outsmart them.

[totalliberal]

02:44 AM on 02/11/2008

Elect a stupid president, expect truly stupid people to be appointed under him.

Huckabee anyone.