In a follow-up report about the use of the USA PATRIOT Act in a strip-club corruption case, Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo says something that really ought to be a front-page headline (instead of buried deep inside a story deep inside the newspaper, where I saw it yesterday):
“The PATRIOT Act was not meant to be just for terrorism.” (Capitalization corrected by me. Pop quiz: What does the second “T” in the acronym USA PATRIOT stand for?)
I first saw this in the Chicago Tribune (registration required), but the same article was also in the Boston Globe. Maybe other papers, too.
Full title
They used invisible ink on the end of the Act’s full title, but a little lemon juice on the original document reveals the whole: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism and Laundering Activities by People who Desire to Advance Naughty Collection Enterprises (USA PATRIOT LAP DANCE)