Good. Plus-good, even.

[torrain_circles]

On the first page, first column of Matters of Justice: An Overview of Major Articles and Trends (the let's-make-sure-we're-all-on-the-same-page section of the DOJ Strategic Plan for FY 2007-2012, tenth page of the PDF):

As reflected in the plan, the Department of Justice (DOJ or the Department) will focus in the next few years on achieving the Attorney General’s priority goals:
(1) To detect and prevent terrorism;
(2) To combat violent crime;
(3) To combat computer crime, especially child pornography, obscenity, and intellectual property theft;

(I am a little thrown on the association of those three, here. Also, they specifically discuss intellectual property theft as a threat to "the health and safety of our citizens"--but that's distinct from the threat this multibillion dollar illicit economy poses to national economic security, and they make a distinction between IP theft and ID theft. Doubtless I am missing something very obvious as to where the health and safety threat from IP theft is coming in.)

(4) To combat illegal drugs;
(5) To attack corporate and public corruption; and
(6) To promote civil rights and civil liberties.

Oh, good. I'm glad someone is planning to keep an eye on that last. I was starting to get vaguely nervous. But their expanded summary addresses housing discrimination (especially in areas with bias-related crimes), human trafficking, and enforcement of the minority language provisions of the Voting Rights act. I can rest easy.

On the first page, second column of same:

The Department has disrupted terrorist threats through aggressive prosecution and by leveraging criminal charges and long prison sentences to gather intelligence.

That said, I get the feeling that perhaps whoever edited the document didn't comb it for connotations. Maybe it's just me.

Next paragraph:

Terrorism remains the Nation’s greatest threat. Unless potential evildoers are monitored and thwarted, large numbers of innocent Americans can be killed in an instant.

I'm sorry. I'm clearly not in the restrained and reserved mindset required for reading five-year plans from the Department of Justice from the United States of America. Clearly evildoers, thwarting, and instantaneous death are serious concepts which are used only to calmly and rationally communicate the specifics of a situation, and are not at all intended to evoke an emotional response.

Comments

[toku666.livejournal.com]

You were unaware that Bush had tapped Stan Lee to replace Gonzalez?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Excelsior!

[(Anonymous)]

Wait until Snow starts referring to al-Qaeda as "the Distinguished Competition." epic lolz

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

This is an actual government document? Using the word "evildoers"? And they don't seem to be concerned about Americans who may not be innocent.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Unless http://www.usdoj.gov/ (http://www.usdoj.gov/) has been subverted, it is.

(There's a bit further on--page 69--where they explain they will deal with civil issues by vigorously defending anti-terrorist legislation and the incarceration of terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. As you noted, they do not spend much time discussing anyone else.)