If you're still thinking about voting for Rudy, consider our history with paranoid cross-dressers in positions of power

I can't believe they named the FBI headquarters after this guy:

A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

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Hoover’s plan called for “the permanent detention” of the roughly 12,000 suspects at military bases as well as in federal prisons. The F.B.I., he said, had found that the arrests it proposed in New York and California would cause the prisons there to overflow.

Read the whole thing - author Tim Weiner does a good job comparing Hoover's plans to abrogate the right of habeas corpus and the rules of evidence with parallel moves by the Bush Administration. The main difference between the two plans is that Bush is mostly after foreigners and Hoover was mostly after citizens, which is a small but important difference. But that still doesn't make it right.