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MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS
FROM: DANIEL McKIVERGAN, Deputy Director
SUBJECT: Homeland Security
On Saturday, February 22, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina offered the following applause line in a speech to members of the Democratic National Committee regarding the ongoing war on terrorism: “... we must never forget that what we fight for above all are the basic values of freedom and justice. And we need to have the backbone and the courage to say that we will not let John Ashcroft, in the name of the war on terrorism, take away our rights, take away our freedom, take away our liberties.”
In light of the senator’s
comments, I would like to draw your attention to this week’s Weekly
Standard editorial, “That Devil
Ashcroft
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in which David Tell argues that while the Justice Department’s anti-terrorism
activities and proposals should “warrant scrupulous public attention,”
the kind of criticism offered by some is often “self-indulgent, heedless
of detail, and hysterical.” Tell adds that “especially in an
age of terrorism, an insistence on the right kind of public debate should
count as more than merely an aspirational nicety of goo-goo political
science.”