Source: Boiling Frogs Post and Corbett Report
James Corbett
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
James Corbett
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an
all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the
trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks,
a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and
shut down congress for the first time in modern history. The Act itself
was introduced on a Tuesday and signed into law on Friday, before anyone
had read let alone understood the sweeping changes it would introduce
to American law.
One of those changes were amendments to a little-known and little-used FBI instrument called National Security Letters.
