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Discussing the Patriot Act

Here's the transcript from a debate on the PBS show Uncommon Knowledge between Edwin Meese, a former Attorney General, and Dorothy Ehrlich, an Executive Director of the ACLU. They don't get a chance to go into great detail, but it's an interesting read. The host seems to be convinced by Meese's arguments over Ehrlich's, which is not surprising. Ehrlich seems to have difficulty making a point based on anything other than fear, whereas Meese does a good job of relating the Patriot Act to pre-existing laws. It hasn't made me a sudden supporter of the act, but it did give me some information about the safeguards and precedents for it that I hadn't come across before.