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Dinh also cast aside allegations from Rose and the audience that the PATRIOT Act was hastily drafted...
Dinh said he thought legislation such as the PATRIOT Act remained important following Sept. 11 because a “war on terrorism” required some of the “deference” traditionally accorded to military bodies to be transferred to U.S. political leadership...
According to Rose, though, the government never lacked the capability to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but rather lacked the organization to use existing information meaningfully. Information-seeking measures established in the PATRIOT Act will not make prevent terrorism, she said, comparing the Act’s method to the concept “that if you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, you put more hay on the stack...
...Dinh said he thought that the increased scrutiny the act offers was necessary—and universally so. He said he did not support an exemption from certain PATRIOT Act restrictions for universities, a refinement higher education activists have been pushing...
...moderated the talk, whether she thought that the lack of a second major terrorist act was evidence of the legislation’s success, Rose said that she—and the ACLU chapter she represents—was not opposed to all of the PATRIOT Act’s recommendations. Many, though, overstepped the boundary of constitutionality based on their infringement of rights, she said...