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Security at what price?(Politics)
John Yoo and Eric Posner, "The Patriot Act under Fire," AEI on the Issues, December 2003 (aei.org)
Ever since its inception in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the USA Patriot Act has been a magnet for criticism of the Bush administration's conduct in the war on terror at home. Columnists ranging from Maureen Dowd to William Satire have denounced the Act's alleged suspension of civil liberties, and Democratic Presidential front-runner Howard Dean has called it "morally wrong," "shameful," and "un-Constitutional." But does the grim rhetoric surrounding denunciations of the Patriot Act bear any resemblance to reality?
"Putting aside the hysterics," write AEI scholar John Yoo and University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner, "the worst thing about the Patriot Act is its Orwellian name." Yoo and Posner argue that the supposed marginal reductions in peacetime liberties due to the Patriot Act are "a reasonable price to pay for a valuable weapon against al-Qaeda."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Security at what price?(Politics)