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from CNN.com:
"The attorney general also said that "several hundred" National Guard troops and possibly helicopters will be used to patrol the U.S.-Canadian border, allowing them "to observe the border better.
Ashcroft, in an interview with "Fox News Sunday," said the troops are being deployed to relieve overworked Border Patrol agents and speed up inspections at the border, but he insisted that the move doesn't signal that the United States is "militarizing" the border. Canadian officials have been consulted, he said."
I'd love to know which Canadian officials.
full article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/12/02/inv.ashcroft.terror/index.html
"If a religion is hijacked and used as a cover for killing thousands of Americans, we're interested in that," he said. "There aren't areas of this culture that are authorized, by virtue of some cloak they draw over them, to be criminal and to assault and kill Americans. It's simply not going to happen."
Isn't that kind of like the FBI and the CIA or any other covert operation? In fact, couldn't that also be the police as well? I realize that's a little sweeping, but this new authority seems a little sweeping too. Who's to regulate who can be watched and who can't? The FBI?
Zoom.
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