1. USA Patriot Act: Intimidating Your Civil Liberties?
President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law on the 26th of October in 2001 just one month following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. ... President Bush states that the Patriot Act "takes account of the new realities and dangers posed by modern terrorists. ... According to Nat Hentoff, a key opponent of the USA Patriot Act, in order to bring to an end to the war against terrorism, President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft embarked on a "war on our civil liberties." ...
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