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5. What does this have to do with another 9/11?
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:30 PM
Sep 2012

You would have to make the argument that had this law been on the books, we would not have had a 9/11. In that case we had an executive branch that completely ignored strong warnings leading up to 9/11, and never scrambled fighter jets to protect the Pentagon. How can you argue that the power to detain Americans without charging them with a crime could have helped? Given the way the political system works now, I can see a situation developing where campaign money is intrinsically linked with disappearing people. No, I am not saying Obama, but laws work for ALL presidents.

In addition to being a bad law, it is hard to see it actually being constitutional.

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