Bob Cox spotted a Good One from The Sacramento Bee By Sam Stanton and Emily Bazar, that examines how the crackdown on terrorism has come into conflict with the civil liberties that set America apart.
“The final version of the Patriot Act that was passed into law was rewritten between midnight and 8 o’clock in the morning behind closed doors by a few unknown people, and it was presented to Congress for a one-hour debate and an up or down vote,” U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said in a telephone interview from his Oregon office. “It was hundreds of pages long, and no member of Congress can tell you they knew what they were voting for in its entirety.”
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