This is what the Bush administration's "war on terrorism" is about:

" ¶Invalidate state legal consent decrees that seek to curb police spying. The authors argued such orders could hinder terrorism investigations.

¶Eliminate the requirement that the attorney general personally has to authorize using certain intelligence evidence in a criminal case, permitting him to designate an assistant attorney general to make such authorizations.

¶Allow the collection of DNA samples by "such means as are reasonably necessary" from suspected terrorists being held by federal authorities. Failing to cooperate would be a crime.

¶Flatly bar Freedom of Information Act efforts to gain information about detainees, because litigation over such issues costs the Justice Department resources.

¶Allow citizenship to be stripped from people who support groups that the United States considers terrorist organizations." - Adam Clymer, The New York Time, 02/08/2003

It's not about protecting American's from any terrorist threat, it's about establishing an American police state. It's about protecting the power and position of America's oligarchs and dictator wannabes.

For the full text, goto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/politics/08BILL.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

That such measures are even being discussed by Bush's Justice Department show the administration's true colors. Bush, after all, once said "This would be alot easier if this was a dictatorship, and I was the dictator." He's well on his way to making that nightmare a reality.