AP, The NYTimes, and The Washington Post are reporting Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a letter to Senate leaders, said the changes proposed in the Security and Freedom Ensured Act, known as SAFE, would “undermine our ongoing campaign to detect and prevent catastrophic attacks.”
Ashcroft told reporters that President Bush would veto the bill if it reached his desk.
“When American lives are at stake, we need to have all the capacities to disrupt and to defeat terrorism that we’ve been successfully using over the last 28 months,” Ashcroft said yesterday.
“The attorney general’s attack on the SAFE Act shows how out of step the Bush administration is with growing national concern over the Patriot Act,” Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union said.
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