Day December 2, 2002

Ashcroft urges federal lawbreaking. John Ashcroft, sworn to uphold all of the laws of the land, is urging government employees to violate the Freedom of Information Act. Last October, the Justice Department cited the Sept. 11 attacks in a memo…

Why we are losing the war From the Guardian The real war with al-Qaeda, as James Thomson, president of the Rand Corporation think-tank, pointed out, is not simply one of missiles, snatch squads and bullets. It is quintessentially one of…