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Transcript: Analysis: John Ashcroft testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee
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- December 6, 2001
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Analysis: John Ashcroft testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
Attorney General John Ashcroft is testifying this morning before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. He's defending the Bush administration'
s anti-terrorism measures. In his opening statement today, Mr. Ashcroft
anticipated criticism that civil liberties are being infringed.
Mr. JOHN ASHCROFT (US Attorney General): We are at war with an enemy
that abuses individual rights as it abuses jetliners. It abuses those
rights to make weapons of them with which to kill Americans.
CHADWICK: Later in his testimony, the attorney ...