[Bush gal in LA]

A lot of the information gotten on these terrorists ,I don't believe we would have been able to get if not for the ''Patriot Act''! Never forget this mans words...WE KILLED THE PATRIOT ACT!...

[George W. Bush]

I don't believe we would have been able to get if not for the ''Patriot Act''!

It was a tip from a store clerk to local police. The local police did much of the early investigation then called in the feds who set up the sting and surveillance.

No indication that any portion of the Patriot Act was applied or needed to apprehend this group.

Homeland security's #2 was on TV today, heaping the praise on the store clerk who tipped off the local police. She said the credit really belongs to them.

Patriot Act has never been justified. It's unlikely it ever will be. It is a poor makeshift to the government performing its duties in excluding foreign radical trash, particularly those of totalitarian ideology such as Muslims, and closing the borders against them.