If this report is right, John Ashcroft’s Justice Department is trying to smuggle in drug war legislation under the guise of fighting terror. Idiots.

As Instapundit puts it, “To be trusted with wartime powers, an Administration — and an Attorney General — needs to demonstrate trustworthiness and self-discipline. This effort to sneak in a pet DoJ issue that has nothing to do with terrorism fails the test.”

And not for the first time, unfortunately.

Meanwhile, in another reminder that this administration still doesn’t take the terrorist threat seriously enough, the Bush administration is dawdling over the certification of pilots who want to carry guns on commercial flights.

In the words of , Capt. Bob Lambert, president of the Airline Pilots’ Security Alliance “It just seems like we haven’t learned very much from Sept. 11.”

Seems not.