CONYERS
Veteran Democrat raises worries on civil liberties, 2002 Iraq attack plan
By Larisa Alexandrovna and John Byrne | RAW STORY
In an interview with RAW STORY, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) raised concerns about a document which suggests President Bush may have knowingly misled the country into war and expressed serious worries about the ebbing of civil liberties.
“There’s a dictatorial flavor that comes into this matter,” Conyers said, speaking of efforts of the current Bush Administration. “This chipping away from what we thought we had and what was in stone: the Civil Rights Act, the Voter Rights Act, the ability of states to process their own judicial cases without federal intervention—all of these things mean we’re not where we were; we’re slipping back and what we’re slipping back into in the cumulative sense is something a little bit scary.”
Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is the second-longest serving Democrat in the House. Elected in 1964, he has been at the vanguard of protecting civil rights and has fought from the progressive left of the Democratic caucus.
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