An Analysis of the Sources of Disagreements between David Cole & Attorney General John Ashcroft

An Analysis of the Sources of Disagreements between David Cole & Attorney General John Ashcroft
Introduction
These two articles, one, an address by Attorney General John Ashcroft to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the other, an article written by David Cole that appeared on the Amnesty International web site, deal with the ethics and Constitutionality of the United Stated Patriot Act. David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, argues that the Patriot Act violates citizen's civil rights and unfairly imprisons innocent individuals. Attorney General Joh…