[Mb-civic] Chasing Terrorists or Fears?

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Chasing Terrorists or Fears? 
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Court rulings call the attorney general's claims of homefront success into question.

By Kevin Sack
Times Staff Writer

October 24 2004

WASHINGTON — Almost immediately after Sept. 11, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft committed his department to a preemptive anti-terrorism strategy modeled after Robert F. Kennedy's zealous harassment of organized crime bosses in the 1960s. And, like the mob-busting prosecutors of the 1930s who put Al Capone away for tax evasion, Ashcroft pledged to use the entirety of the criminal code to disrupt terrorist plots before they matured. 

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