Yeah and there were that many there in the bombing of New York's World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 which was meant to topple the city's tallest tower onto its twin, amid a cloud of cyanide gas. Had the attack gone as planned, tens of thousands of Americans would have died. Instead, as we know, one tower did not fall on the other, and, rather than vaporizing, the cyanide gas burnt up in the heat of the explosion.
After this happened did conservatives and Republicans demand a Patriot Act?
7-30-1996, WASHINGTON (CNN) --
President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess.
"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures.
Sen. Don Nickles, R-Oklahoma, said the country remains "very open" to terrorism. "Will it stop any acts of terrorism, domestic and international? No," he said, adding, "We don't want a police state,
Hatch blasts 'phony' issues "These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get."
"If they want to, they can study the thing" already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.
Nobody wanted the Executive powers of a Patriot Act in the hands of a Clinton but is was safe in the Hands of a Bush? Keep that in mind as a Clinton continues to lead in the polls.
You're absolutely right. The USA PATRIOT act was loaded with powers that the Reno DoJ had been demanding for years, and that the Republican Congress blocked. When the actual USA PATRIOT act was proposed post-9/11, Dick Armey opposed many of its provisions saying, "One of these hotshots from the Justice Department said, 'This isn't new; we've been asking for this for a long time.' I said, 'We've been saying no for a long time.'"
On top of that, the version that came out of the Democratic controlled Senate was worse than the one from the Republican House. Why? When Grover Norquist asked Russ Feingold that question, he answered by pointing across the room at Tom Daschle and said, "Because Daschle told us to fold."
I'll keep that in mind when that's shown in actual polls and when Clinton did nothing to stop Al-Queda.