How do you feel about the argument that the USA Patriot Act is undermining basic civil liberties?
Well I think the challenges have got more refined over time. I think there was an unfortunate level of exaggeration at the beginning. I think for example that the Patriot Act became a target in some unfortunate ways when in fact people didn’t actually study the particular provisions of the Patriot Act to see what it was actually authorizing and doing. And one particular provision in particular that authorizes the executive to ask questions about what people are reading at the library got a world of attention when well first of all its a relatively minor provision in the act. Second, it is hinged on a specific showing that the information relates to aiding and abetting or giving material support to terrorist activity. And third the authority has never been used. All of that became the focus of a great deal of talk if you will when in fact the other provisions of the act were much more important and let me just give a couple of examples of that. The Patriot Act basically said that we oug
