I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.
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