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'Patriot' games
Mend it or end it? A better question is why Bush wants to make the Patriot Act an election issue.

You feel like pinching yourself, but it's true enough. On April 6, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging one of the provisions of the "USA Patriot" Act, passed in haste by Congress after 9/11. Under provisions of that same act, the ACLU was not allowed to make its lawsuit public.

Three weeks later, after intense negotiations with the government, the ACLU was able to announce its lawsuit. But it could only release a redacted version; some pages had more than half the lines blacked out...