According to an August 14, 2002, article in The Los Angeles Times: “…in August [2002], [Attorney General John] Ashcroft disclosed a plan that ‘would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.’ ”
– Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, Pages 239-240