Something that I have always wondered about the Patriot act...

[Javaman]

You know after 9/11, I found it really amazing how quickly such a huge document was created in such a short time.

It appears to me as if someone had it ready in the shoot before 9/11.

Wouldn't it be amazing if we could prove that?

[Trevelyan]

1. The huge size of the Patriot Act and the sneaky way they shoved it through

before almost all Congresspersons had no chance to read it is strong circumstancial evidence. Does Richard Clarke say anything in his expose of how the WHIG reacted immediately after 911 in wanting to attack Iraq because according to Rumsfeld "It has better targets there."

With Larence Wilkes and so many other insiders truly patriotically speaking out to tell the truth about the bush regime's darkness, I would think that there would be someone with insider information willing to talk.

Good catch, CALLING ALL WHISTLEBLOWERS....

[hang a left]

2. Not to mention the White House taking Cipro beginning on 9-11

and the Anthrax sent to Daschle and Leahy.

[BR_Parkway]

4. So who actually wrote it? anyone know?

[seeminer21]

3. It DID already exist in concept

Most of it is based on the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nssg/

Predates Bush, though. So I don't know if anything useful can be "proven" from this.

[OneBlueSky]

5. it existed more than in concept . . . it was on the shelf . . .

complete and ready to go as soon as there was a precipitating incident . . . we're talking a pretty huge legal document here, not something that could be drafted and refined in days or even weeks . . .

in a similar vein, I've always wondered how BushCo came up with the names, backgrounds, countries or origin, and photos of all the hijackers within a few days of 9/11 . . . this information also had to be on the shelf and ready to go . . .