Ashcroft Blasts Efforts to Weaken Terrorism Law

This is a positively absurd sideshow. Ashcroft came out and blasted last month's vote in the Republican-led house that would repeal the provision of the USA PATRIOT Act that lets the federal government delay notiification that search warrants have been executed, AKA the sneak and peek provision. John Ashcroft had the gall, the sheer unadulterated hypocrisy, to call this a hasty uninformed piece of legislation. EXCUSE ME?! He's calling the amendment hasty? No, I don't think so!!!

The USA PATRIOT Act is the hasty piece of legislation. The USA PATRIOT Act was never read in its entirety by the legislators who voted on it---they read sections of it and relied on Ashcroft's word when he told them what was in it. How do I know this? BECAUSE THE VOTE ON THE USA PATRIOT ACT OCCURED BEFORE THE BILL WAS PRINTED!!! Hasty amendment my @*#(!.