By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.
John AshcroftNothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
John AshcroftThere is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?
John AshcroftWe need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
John Ashcroft