Decius wrote:
] ] For the first time in our history, American citizens have
] ] been seized by the executive branch of government and put
] ] in prison without being charged with a crime, without
] ] having the right to a trial, without being able to see a
] ] lawyer, and without even being able to contact their
] ] families.
]
] Increasingly I must insist that brevity is genius, but many of
] you will enjoy watching Gore rip the President a new one for
] paragraph after paragraph, even if the material might be
] redundant for you. If 9-11 made everyone more radical, here
] you can really see how deep the chasm is between the left and
] the right. What I will say is most interesting is that Gore is
] even fair. He is careful, for example, to acknowledge that
] some of the sections of the Patriot act aren't
] unreasonable.... And yet he still has much to complain about.

Now that Gore's political career is basically over, I think this is a great role for him: throwing shit at the adminstration. He has (some) credibility and nothing to lose -- and the administration has everything to lose.

RE: Al Gore reads the administration the riot act.