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Perhaps folks might be willing to cut John Ashcroft a little slack on his homeland security claims, if crap like this<\/a> didn’t keep happening.<\/p>\n

Granted, this is DHS, not DoJ. Still, until the homeland security effort as a whole <\/i>can show itself as both benign and competent, folks are going to remain suspicious. And rightfully so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps folks might be willing to cut John Ashcroft a little slack on his homeland security claims, if crap like this didn’t keep happening. Granted, this is DHS, not DoJ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5285,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/geese_and_gande.html","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":0},"title":"Geese and ganders","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Apr-04 4:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I think it's all marvelously ironic that various states attorneys general are criticizing John Ashcroft and the DoJ because he's being too rigorous about citizen privacy concerns -- in this...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132176,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/trump-names-john-kelly-for-homeland-security.html","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":1},"title":"Trump names John Kelly for Homeland Security","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-16 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Kelly sounds like he would make a great ... 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