The PATRIOT Act unconstitutionally infringes on the civil liberties of Americans while not providing any useful result.
Most of the GOP is too concerned about elections and looking ‘soft on terrorism’ to even consider voting against something called the PATRIOT Act. Of those, a good majority voted for the original when GWB proposed it, and have defended it ever since. Politically, they can’t admit that it was a terrible idea from day 1.
I wouldn’t call it a terrible proposal from Day 1. as I said in my previous post, we have no idea how many threats were actually thwarted that we have no idea about. This is column of our anti-terrorism policy that is being chopped out from underneath; the first was Obama’s nullification of the enhanced interrogation techniques. I am disheartened by the unfortunate lack of connection these Republicans made between national security and this Act. I do not see this as a politically divisive point in the Republican party, not yet at least. I just pray that all that say this did nothing were not wrong, and that we are not hit by another 9-11 magnitude attack. And please, don’t make a point out of Ft. Hood and Nidal Hassan, that was a totally different screw up by the Army, unfortunately.
Yes, it just gave the justice department the tools for spy on terrorists and kept us safe. That’s all.