A good balanced look
comes from a response from Andrew Sullivan (a conservative I might add) to a reader that tried to give some rationalization to the the excessive actions taken after 9/11.
The country, conservatives and liberals alike, did give him some additional powers to take actions in defending us from the unknown terror we were facing but as Sullivan so deftly points out, those powers were temporary to the emergency and making them permanent has grave implications.
Here's the article:
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