I protest.

Liar, liar.

Looks like Ashcroft wasn't quite telling the truth when he claimed that the FBI has not used [the] Patriot Act to get library [and] business records." From TalkLeft, "Libraries Report Being Asked for Records."

Go read Jeralyn's entry; apparently there is a lot of blog chatter about this, to which she links. (I picked up the link via Sisyphus Shrugged.)

All I want to say is that I told you so. Ashcroft truly believes that the end he seeks justifies any means used to reach it, whether that is lying or violating people's Constitutional or human rights. Or, I imagine, anything else. We all end up in even more danger than we were, for not only are we not any more safe from "terrorist threats," but we are now in danger from our own government.