Asscroft up now! 3:55 PM EST - C-SPAN

edit: typo

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this is going to be good

Or are the pious exempted?

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But not today.

"It is his faith... FACE... that is the face of evil."

ooo, nice slip there, Johnny

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I just turned it on--
Was Ashcroft talking about himself right there? Damn!

Too fvcking late! LOL!

Take the focus off 9/11 commission (esp. Asscroft).

Lying from the get go.

.....blaming Clinton already.

'problems that had existed for almost a decade'... I guess to go back any further would have placed some of the blame on poopy bush or Reagan.

WTF?

The "big guns are out supporting him."

who suffered a loss on 9/11 also.

All it really shows is that Olson doesn't give a shit why his wife died so long as he can have power.

with him there?? Or, is it really Barbara made-over compliments of the govt?

be a government provided replacement.

and now he's blaming CIA reform.

Asshole.

Don't they ever give up.

sing.

Somehow.

LOL

This Ahole should be tarred and feathered.

I'm sure he's going to waste ever second he can waste.

where's the gruff douchebag we know and love? Not talkin' nearly so tough today, are ya?

true.

his opening statement was very off.

preferably calico----or they could just be stroking it the whole time they're questioning him. Would be something to see, watch asscrap freak out and start crying.

Can't wait.

he SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. And Asscroft should have known.

In the law, you can't get out of resposibility for your actions by saying you didn't know something. If it can be proven that you SHOULD HAVE KNOWN by looking at the facts in total, then you are responsible.

I get so tired of hearing this Administration trying to weasle out of their responsibility for 9/11.

He sounds like the Chimp. Kill, Kill, Terrarists! Telling them what to do and how they should do it because "he knows all about everything!"

a police state here where the FBI/CIA can go in and do whatever they want whenever they want.

Who hates "our freedom"--Asscroft does.

All he's doing is wanting more erosion of our civil liberties.

9/11 could've been thwarted with the laws we currently have on the books if Asscroft had been PAYING ATTENTION.

and that the whole Government was a mess until he rode in on his big Bull to vanquish all the weenies!

Now he's hitting on Clinton's Millenium plan saying it wouldn't work. I guess we're supposed to be overwhelmed with his competence!

TYY

announced at least twice before he came into the room.

"He won't give it to us." Anybody? Beuller?

Yep, it's all Clinton's fault. For almost a decade the intelligence was stymied. Here it comes.

Comes across like the bigot he is.

It's like he is bragging about what a wonderful job this administration has done and of course, blaming Clinton for everything.

He's going to burn in hell.

answers as he "covers his butt." I hope they have counter testamony from others about this jerk. Criticizing everyone but himself.

and just WHAT THE HELL did you do to tear down that wall? Here goes... CLINTON built the wall. Damn his lying sanctimonious soul to hell.

bleech!!! What was the memo he declassified...he said one of the panel members authored it??

"We don't need no thought control"...

Read it in a news article (no link). If this is true, I can't wait to hear how he responds to that one!

And that's his entire tactic here. Blame the intel failures on previous laws that he 'so tragically obeyed.'

Ashcroft wants to be Reagan:
"Mr. Chairman, tear down this wall!"

Jeez-he's said WALL about every other word...

He'd like to set the constitution aside because it hinders him so much.

where's Colleen Rowley?

evil "wall" that caused 9-11 to occur? Come on John, why don't you just ship them off to Guantanamo right now? That would be just your style.

Former Asst. attorney General under Clinton

He is trying to bring down and blame Clinton because of his fucking bullshit approach to terrorism. He never made it a priority. FBI on the verge of collaspe under Clinton, what a fucking liar. I will watch when the questions asked.

blaming clinton for budget problems...this guy is simply disgusting

He's blaming Clinton - of course...and he says their action back then should not be used as a model...well then...we'll use your "I don't want to hear it"...as a model???

HE'S VILE!!!!!

Citing the NSC after action review 17 months before 9/11 and Clinton cutting the FBI computer budget.

for additional funding for counter-terrorism? HE TURNED IT DOWN! What a liar.

I worked for the Federal Gov for over 10 years, building large
IT systems for NASA.

Ashcroft says that the last Clinton budget was $38 M less than
the last Bush (1) budget for FBI IT systems.

$38 M less! How big WERE these budgets.

I built one of the largest (if the THE largest) storage systems
in the world on less than $10 M / year budget.

It's also a fact that IT systems between FY 1992 and 2001 decrease
in price by at least an order of magnitude for equiv capability.

What crap is he spewing?

is laying the partisan gauntlet down. Will be interesting to watch the give and take.

Jamie, Bob, Ben and Rohmer (Jerry??) !!!!

Give it to him!!!!

it sure sounded like it.

If this LSOS (lying sack of shit--been using that term a lot lately) thinks that Bob Kerrey, Jamie Gorelick, and Richard (The Hammer) BenVeniste are going to roll over, he's in for a surprise... one millisecond of filibustering and they should cut the sucker off at the knees!

:nuke:

He's gonna read his entire insipid speech, even though it's already been entered into the record.

I'm bettin he uses the 'Condi Filibuster' tactic today.

I hope they beat the crap out of him!!!

:grr::nuke::mad:

Do none of these morons know how to speak English correctly??

TYY

saying... there is NO WALL, Asscraft....

information was not shared the way Reno/Clinton admin did.

BS at its finest.

Asscrack took lessons from Condi on how to maximize number of words in answer and yet say nothing substantial.

Shoulda seen that one coming.

That's Bullshit. It is was a metter of interpretation he could have just issued a new directive.

I muted his horseshit intro.

for a few seconds, and Ashcroft's voice turned into robotic noises... :tinfoilhat:

ready to fart...I don't think that he believes a$$crap.

. . . he was pretending to read, flipping the papers and faked a pencil mark. I think you're right. It was probably gas.

TYY

who tore down down your wall mama?
Oh yeah baby, that was nobody but your own crisco kid.

Did I mention I've been on a lo-carb diet too? That helps to disrupt the network.

n/t

Ha

so sez the first republican commissioner.

"The wall itself promoted this culture" The wall was a career ender in the culture of the intelligence. OK, Johnny -- "the patriot act took down the wall".

if the Constitution and our laws were in the way and "helping the terrorist?" Anyone here think he looks like a rat- I also smell a rat now when I see him.

We just got really lucky, and of course we acted on it, she said.

But gee thanks.....

no harm in maybe giving credit to the fact that the heads of cia, doj and fbi meet regularly... and communicated with their undersecretaries/deputies..... but she let them one get away. Thanks janet.

that was to blame, I believe that's what he saying. The Clinton starved the FBI Budget lower than even Poppy's budget. He's blaming old computers on Clinton, too. Everything is Clinton's fault...sheesh!

about terrorism. He wanted to know why we couldn't arrest Bin Laden and terrorists because he believes in being "agressive." Yeah right...how was he going to arrest Bin Laden. No one can find him!

because the Clenis made me

hmmm...someone is lying here people.... He cared about terrorism...oh I get it john...you really really cared....BULL!!!

TERRA TERRA TERRA!!!!

I'm not sure who it was, I was in the car, but it was totally different.

I didn't hear all of todays witnesses. Something seems overblown in what he saying. Defending himself too much, methinks.

National Search Warrents, Track and Trace for E-Mail. He wants to add more to Patriot Act. Want's "Material Support" for terrorists enablers.

Patriot II stuff...blather.

!_! the english...

Pickard lied, 'I never said that to Pickard.' My heart and soul is deeply for the American people....bullshit.

that's why he spent 2001 chasing hookers, pot smokers and cancer patients who wanted to check out early.

:scared:

like the 7-11 robbers. WTF?

Bringing Cheney in to enhance credibility...Easter bunny next

Man he is going to have to go to church for a week.

It looks like his brush with death didn't make him an honest man.

is being extra soft.

TYY

TYY

This fucker is going down.

Does he have the questions being asked of him??
Good, let Ben-Veniste rip him a new one!

All in all, you're just another brick in the WALL.

from the Center for American Progress:

"Counterterrorism was nowhere to be seen on Ashcroft's list of top priorities for the Justice Department. Ashcroft's May 2001 "budget goals memo" outlined the Attorney General's top seven priorities. Counterterrorism did not appear anywhere on the list. After 9/11, Ashcroft released a revised strategic goals memo in November 2001 that inserted a new priority at the top of the list – "Protect America Against the Threat of Terrorism."

Attorney General Ashcroft specifically cut counterterrorism spending prior to 9/11. Justice Department documents released by American Progress reveal that in August 2001, the FBI specifically requested additional resources to bolster counterterrorism resources. In response, Ashcroft actually cut counterterrorism funding in critical areas including equipment grants, border control, and the National Domestic Preparedness Office. Our new analysis reveals the 2002 counterintelligence budget proposed by Ashcroft cut counterintelligence spending by more than $476 million – a 23 percent decline from 2001 funding levels."

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=45491

Man this is frustrating, let me ask a few real questions.

all the provisions Reno said were not that necessary in the Patriot act

Please keep: roving wire tap for NON Criminal investigations.... ie, no probable fucking cause!

National search warrants....(no states' rights..... yet again)

tap/trace emails.... this also goes to CIVIL investigations...

WISH LIST (and gosh he sure sounded JOLLY about how grrreeattt these would be)

material support for terrorists should be 'clarified'...

a presumption of no bail for those charged with terrorism. Hmmmm, that would pretty much eradicate a need for an arraignment hearing! Just arrest someone, throw 'em in jail, until their TRIAL,... A lot like gitmo

Give civil investigators subpoena power for certains kinds of business records...

expand the death penalty..... (wonder if material support people would get that too??? $5 to the arab league and off with yer head!)

He is a DANGEROUS F*CK!!!!

EVIL BIOLOGY! SCIENCE IS EVIL!

the suicide bombers will be deterred by the possibility of the death penalty. Which there is apparent authority for anyway.

the man is a certifiable loon.

That cracks me up every single time. I keep thinking it must be some fundy code words signaling the need to get rid of Chemistry and Biology from public schools.

You have a hard battle ahead of you Democrats... perhaps a civil war. You are being twisted by the legacy of Rushdoony's tracts, neocolonialism, the money behind it all as well as the parasites that suck the blood which is soon to run out. Favella or 'secured community' in the protected part? Where will your and your kin fall?

The Despoiling of America

How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State

By Katherine Yurica

With Editorial and Research Assistant Laurie Hall

The First Prince of the Theocratic States of America

It happened quietly, with barely a mention in the media. Only the Washington Post dutifully reported it.<1> And only Kevin Phillips saw its significance in his new book, American Dynasty.<2> On December 24, 2001, Pat Robertson resigned his position as President of the Christian Coalition.

Behind the scenes religious conservatives were abuzz with excitement. They believed Robertson had stepped down to allow the ascendance of the President of the United States of America to take his rightful place as the head of the true American Holy Christian Church.

Robertson’s act was symbolic, but it carried a secret and solemn revelation to the faithful. It was the signal that the Bush administration was a government under God that was led by an anointed President who would be the first regent in a dynasty of regents awaiting the return of Jesus to earth. The President would now be the minister through whom God would execute His will in the nation. George W. Bush accepted his scepter and his sword with humility, grace and a sense of exultation.

As Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court explained a few months later, the Bible teaches and Christians believe “… that government …derives its moral authority from God. Government is the ‘minister of God’ with powers to ‘revenge,’ to ‘execute wrath,’ including even wrath by the sword…”<3>

George W. Bush began to wield the sword of God’s revenge with relish from the beginning of his administration, but most of us missed the sword play. I have taken the liberty to paraphrase an illustration from Leo Strauss, the father of the neo-conservative movement, which gives us a clue of how the hiding is done:

more...

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

bush is protecting our country...blah..blah..blah...Mr. stupid Thompson, who's suppost to protect this country right now? dah! Isn't small man bush the puppet president?

A$$crap killing time ala Sleeza.

just like the rest of us mortal slugs. Gee, wonder if he saw the classified, full version?

LIAR.....

let's see how he lies his way out of this!

We only have three real questioners for Asscroft.

Ah. Why stop flying commercial? Finally.

like that question..lying sack of shit!
His whole demeanor has changed, he's lying and pissed..tough shit~

Asshcroft claiming story false.

that he stopped commercial. thinking he can prove he flew commercial. oh well

Did he say that he flew commercial prior to 9/11 or just that his wife did?