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Senator [Dayton] Defends Shutting Hill Office
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Oct 16, 2004 02:00pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Saturday, October 16, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The surprising response by the freshman senator from Minnesota to the latest in a series of warnings prompted ridicule and a flurry of angry reactions yesterday. Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) said Dayton's decision was "ill-informed." Minnesota's senior senator, Norm Coleman (R), called Dayton reckless. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) compared him to the boy who cried wolf. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle whispered "paranoid." ...
Dayton's reaction to the extreme possibility was ridiculous, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said.
"It's not based on any credible information that's come in. Nobody knows why he is doing what he is doing," Ramsey said. "It doesn't take a brain surgeon to think that the White House and the Capitol are targets. But there is no credible information about planned attacks -- nothing to set off the reaction we saw." ...
"He's damaged us. He's unnecessarily panicked people across the United States," said Norton, who has often questioned the federal government's security moves in the capital. "Now we have a member of Congress who steps out and says, 'I'm going to tell you something the rest of Congress won't tell you.' That's unfair to the entire security network that is in constant communication about this place." |
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