A major policy speech delivered by former Vice President Al Gore at historic DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC on November 9, 2003.

The speech was sponsored by MoveOn.org and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.  In this, his third major speech on the Administration’s response to terrorism, Mr. Gore describes the White House assault on civil liberties as un-American.  He charges that the Bush/Ashcroft attack on the Constitution is a smokescreen that obscures the Administration’s failure to meaningfully protect national security, and asserts that these efforts have weakened, rather than strengthened, America.