Ashcroft Record: 0 for 5,000 in Terrorism Cases

Ashcroft Record: 0 for 5,000 in Terrorism Cases



Earlier this month a federal judge threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11. According to the Nation's David Cole "the Detroit case had marked the only terrorist conviction obtained from the Justice Department's detention of more than 5,000 foreign nationals in anti-terrorism sweeps since 9/11. So Ashcroft's record is 0 for 5,000. When the attorney general was locking these men up in the immediate wake of the attacks, he held almost daily press conferences to announce how many 'suspected terrorists' had been detained. No press conference has been forthcoming to announce that exactly none of them have turned out to be actual terrorists."

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