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Source List of Key Laws and Policies that Threaten Civil Liberties

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Match a commonly referenced antiterrorism law or policy to its source. Note that many laws currently in use that threaten civil liberties predate the USA PATRIOT Act.

John Ashcroft's Patriot Games (Vanity Fair)

Posted February 1st, 2004 by LoyalNine
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The revolution inside John Ashcroft's Justice Department—an array of new crime-prevention powers embodied in the Patriot Act—has been fueled by the attorney general's ambition, intelligence, and unusually extreme beliefs about everything from the similarities between himself and Jesus to the post-9/11 role of law enforcement, to the purported demonic properties of calico cats. But as nervous sources share stories of his Missouri governorship, and former staffers and Senate allies speak out, JUDY BACHRACH discovers that Ashcroft has also sparked a growing backlash, one with surprisingly bipartisan power

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1759