Ashcroft's May 2001 priorities -- What's missing ...

[skeptic9]

... from the list of seven "Strategic Goals and Objectives" Ashcroft released 4 months before 9/11?

1. Reduce "gun violence" and enforce drug laws
2. Support community-based policing programs
3. Enforce civil rights laws--but don't go overboard

4. Administer immigration laws effectively
5. Manage an expanding Federal prison inmate population
6. Speed cases through the judicial system

7. "Ensure excellence, intregrity and accountability" in the Justice Department

This is just one of many documents posted online yesterday at http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=39039 to provide objective evidence on Richard Clarke's accusations against the Bush White House. Posted there also for comparison is the corresponding last goals document Janet Reno issued a year earlier in April 2000. Her TOP priority -- counterterrorism -- did not even make the bottom of Ashcroft's list.

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1273378 for a DU discussion of the entire list of Clarke evidence document links at CFAP (Center for American Progress).