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Attorney General Ashcroft News Conference Transcript
Regarding Decision of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
of Review
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2002/111802fisanewsconference.htm

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Q Yes. I was wondering if you could comment on the proposal to create a domestic spying agency within the United States and how this ruling might be a prelude to such an agency.

ATTY GEN. ASHCROFT: Well, this ruling really addresses the need to be able to integrate the activities of our law enforcement community. It says that we ought to be able to have things which become -- come into the awareness of the intelligence community, they should be able to be passed to the prosecutors, and things that come up in the law enforcement community should be able to be passed over to the intelligence community. In other words, this ruling is a ruling that talks about the value of integration and how it can be appropriately -- things can be appropriately integrated, coordinated; there can be cooperation, collaboration in the entirety of the law enforcement community.

And frankly, that advances a theme, because we've felt that we need better integration, better communication, cooperation, collaboration between our law enforcement and intelligence communities. And that's something we've been working on since September the 11th.

It seems to me that the establishment of a separate, distinct agency would be to move in the other direction; instead of to integrate and cooperate and communicate, it would be to segregate and to set aside this.

And so, it would be a surprise to me to have it seriously considered that the effort we've made to integrate, so that we can have the kind of collaboration and cooperation that brings the right result, so all the information is on the table, so that we can take advantage of all the resources, would somehow now be abandoned and that there would be some reversion to a segregated approach where we have this other agency that would be distinct and outside this relatively active now, flowing stream of information and cooperation which has been developed in response to the terrorism which was so damaging to America on September the 11th last year.
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Attorney General Ashcroft News Conference Transcript
Regarding Decision of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
of Review
GO HERE FOR FULL REPORT:
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2002/111802fisanewsconference.htm

Court Decision (PDF File)

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It's The Law!

Case Law:
"Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal or moral duty to speak, or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading... We cannot condone this shocking conduct... If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately"
U.S. v. Tweel 550 F2d 297, 299-300.

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/itsthelaw.htm

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