Terror profiles at issue for Mukasey (will appear today at Senate Judiciary oversight hearing)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Bush administration will do everything it can to make sure the government has what it needs to fight terrorists before a new president takes over.
WASHINGTON —
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Bush administration will do everything it can to make sure the government has what it needs to fight terrorists before a new president takes over.

But civil rights activists say that shouldn't include letting the FBI start using terrorist profiles that potentially single out Muslims, Arabs and other racial and ethnic groups instead of relying on evidence of wrongdoing as the basis for investigating Americans.

Mukasey was to appear Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, where senators were expected to ask him about proposed changes in Justice Department policy that critics say opens the door to racial profiling.

Department officials, however, say the changes would help investigators root out terrorists before they strike.



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[fasttense]

1. Congress is irrelevant when they can't even enforce their own subpoenas. n/t

[The Stranger]

2. Mukasey is Schumer and Feinstein's man.

Right?

[maddezmom]

3. Hearing now on CSPAN3 if anyone is interested

http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan3-g2.rm&proto=rtsp

[maddezmom]

4. "This administration makes the Watergate looks like child's play," said Leahy, D-Vt.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/24183594.html