If a Democrat gets the Whitehouse, I expect some combination of three possible outcomes.
1) They pull the Patriot Act altogether,
2) They Pull the Patriot Act and institute their own version which will be trivially different, but they will claim they’ve struck a spectacular balance between protecting civil liberties and protecting the public unlike the evil Republicans.
3) They modify the Patriot Act to make it politically correct. This will create a bureaucracy that will not only render the benefits of the Patriot Act useless, we will be even more unprotected than before the Act.
Hopefully it will be mostly #2. It will be irritating but better than if its mostly #1 or #3.
JPM: I remember reading somewhere that Democrats might rebuild portions of the Jamie Gorelick wall which made it nearly impossible for law enforcement and intelligence to share information.
They would almost certainly return to “managing” terrorism primary with law enforcement. And of course we all know how well that worked. NOT!
If a Democrat gets the Whitehouse, I expect some combination of three possible outcomes.
1) They pull the Patriot Act altogether,
2) They Pull the Patriot Act and institute their own version which will be trivially different, but they will claim they’ve struck a spectacular balance between protecting civil liberties and protecting the public unlike the evil Republicans.
3) They modify the Patriot Act to make it politically correct. This will create a bureaucracy that will not only render the benefits of the Patriot Act useless, we will be even more unprotected than before the Act.
Hopefully it will be mostly #2. It will be irritating but better than if its mostly #1 or #3.
JPM: I remember reading somewhere that Democrats might rebuild portions of the Jamie Gorelick wall which made it nearly impossible for law enforcement and intelligence to share information.
They would almost certainly return to “managing” terrorism primary with law enforcement. And of course we all know how well that worked. NOT!