Ronald Dworkin in the New York Review of Books asks and answers:
"What has al-Qaeda done to our Constitution, and to our national standards of fairness and decency? Since September 11, the government has enacted legislation, adopted policies, and threatened procedures that are not consistent with our established laws and values and would have been unthinkable before.
On October 25, Congress passed the "USA Patriot Act" with only one dissenting vote in the Senate and sixty-six in the House....
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