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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Shhh. It's a secret again

Ashcroft gets sued.

Citing national security, Ashcroft recently classified documents related to the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former linguist at the FBI. The lawsuit charged that reclassifying materials that had previously been in the public domain is illegal and unconstitutional.

POGO (Project on Government Oversight) claims the documents do not meet the criteria of reclassification as they were posted on the web and therefore unrecoverable. Head over to Discourse.net for more.