via Dan Gillmor
One 36-year-old U.S. law can be broken, it seems. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who is sworn to enforce all laws, has told federal employees that they can bend -- perhaps even break -- one law, and he will even defend their actions in court. That law is known as the Freedom of Information Act.
In other news...
John Ashcroft has rewritten the Bill of Rights to include just two amendments rather than the original ten. The Attorney General referred to the removed amendments as "pesky" and said that this recent action was a "good start."