(Viet Dinh Defends The Patriot Act)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62388,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_202:00 AM Feb. 24, 2004 PT
Viet Dinh has been called a "political pit bull" and "a foot soldier" for Attorney General John Ashcroft. But the 36-year-old author of the Patriot Act prefers to be called an "attendant of freedom."
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"...the last 28 months of peace in America, where not another life has been lost on American soil to terrorism, would have been much more difficult without the USA Patriot Act."
Never mind the centuries before 9/11 where no life has been lost on American soil to terrorism, - without- the Patriot Act.
As slashdot.org puts it:
"..In the past he said, "Security without liberty - it's not an America I would want to live in."
...Several of his replies are (predictably / necessarily / discouragingly) less than direct."