The rhetoric is correct

From John Edwards statement regarding Attorney General John Ashcroft's speeches on the Patriot Act in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Iowa:

"…I have proposed a new domestic intelligence agency that will both protect our country and safeguard our freedoms, with a new, independent office dedicated to protecting our civil liberties. Unlike this administration, I will never lock away an American citizen indefinitely without access to a lawyer and without a chance to go before a judge and make the case he is innocent. And I will make sure the Department of Justice is accountable in the courts and to the public.

"We must continue to strengthen our domestic defense and stop terrorists in our midst, and we must protect our rights as Americans. But I do not believe in John Ashcroft's and this administration's America where we must sacrifice one to do the other."

via Mike at TOPDOG04.COM

posted by Prometheus 6 at 8/20/2003 07:01:50 AM |