[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.

[George W. Bush]

I reviewed the footage. It was the store owner, not a clerk, who tipped the local cops.

[Bush gal in LA]

Your right I don’t know for sure that the Patriot act was used in this case. But I do know that after the initial tip from the person in the store there had to be a ‘’follow up’’ investigation. Perhaps tapping phones, surveillance,looking at computer records,patterns etc. A lot of this .I believe would be a lot harder to get at , in our PC society,if not for tools like the Patriot act. Which I believe should be used along with all the other necessary tools we have like citizens tips, throwing out illegals aliens ,etc, to stop terrorism! IMHO! ......Politicians who oppose the Patriot Act, which (within constitutional limits) increases the tools the government can use to investigate suspected terrorists inside the United States, or who refuse to support enforcement and tightening of our immigration laws, need to answer one question: Are they helping or hurting our efforts to track down the Hazmis and al Mihdhars who may be running free in America today?