championing of the Patriot Act
For his part, Ashcroft graciously resigned with a letter celebrating the American people, his fellow terror-fighters in government agencies, and God: ''the Author of our freedom has stood beside us.'' (You just know that drove secular liberal reporters crazy!) Ashcroft?’s record stands for itself. No attack on American soil since 9-11. The dismantling of terrorist cells from New York to California. Almost 200 terror convictions. Federal gun prosecutions are up 76 percent. Violent crime has dropped to a 30-year low, down 27 percent over the last three years. Think of the estimated 250,000 people saved from having their civil liberties violated. For all this and more, you cannot count on the liberal media to give Ashcroft one iota of credit. The media?’s can?’t even be counted on to mention these numbers in passing.
Instead, the ACLU line on Ashcroft, the menace to liberty, has dominated. In a New York Times graphic on ''Ashcroft's tenure,'' there was no balance. ''To his critics, he was a symbol of the antiterror campaign's excesses.'' The six one-paragraph items summarizing his tenure were a tendentious listing of liberal talking points, beginning with his championing of the Patriot Act, which the Times did not mention passed Congress almost unanimously.
By passed Congress almost unanimous
For his part, Ashcroft graciously resigned with a letter celebrating the American people, his fellow terror-fighters in government agencies, and God: ''the Author of our freedom has stood beside us.'' (You just know that drove secular liberal reporters crazy!) Ashcroft?’s record stands for itself. No attack on American soil since 9-11. The dismantling of terrorist cells from New York to California. Almost 200 terror convictions. Federal gun prosecutions are up 76 percent. Violent crime has dropped to a 30-year low, down 27 percent over the last three years. Think of the estimated 250,000 people saved from having their civil liberties violated. For all this and more, you cannot count on the liberal media to give Ashcroft one iota of credit. The media?’s can?’t even be counted on to mention these numbers in passing.
Instead, the ACLU line on Ashcroft, the menace to liberty, has dominated. In a New York Times graphic on ''Ashcroft's tenure,'' there was no balance. ''To his critics, he was a symbol of the antiterror campaign's excesses.'' The six one-paragraph items summarizing his tenure were a tendentious listing of liberal talking points, beginning with his championing of the Patriot Act, which the Times did not mention passed Congress almost unanimously.
By passed Congress almost unanimous
