John Ashcroft - Patriot Act defender

Tillie Fong, on the Rocky Mountain News, has a narrative of John Ashcroft's latest public appearance where he defends the Patriot Act, claims that since 9/11, there is a new "paradigm of peril", and remains ignorant as to the threats posed by the Patriot Act to the Constitution. Perhaps he should have educated himself a bit before making such a fool of himself:

• Concerned Citizens Against the Patriot Act
• Alan Caruba's The Patriot Act vs. the U.S. Constitution, Capitalism Magazine (January 27, 2004).
• Brigid O'Neil's The PATRIOT Act’s Assault on the Bill of Rights, The Independent Institute (September 15, 2003)
• John Nichols' The Patriot Act's--and the Senate's--Constitution Problem, The Nation (09/06/2007)
• CNN's Federal judge rules 2 Patriot Act provisions unconstitutional (9/26/2007)
• The ACLU's Patriot Act Dashboard