Liberty Beat by Nat Hentoff Cuffing Bush and the FBI A serious setback to the Patriot Act, despite the victorious Bush's unstinting support November 12th, 2004 6:35 PM Bush's re-election ensures that he and John Ashcroft's designated successor, Alberto Gonzales, will press Congress hard to retain the Patriot Act in its entirety, and enact a Patriot Act II that will further disable the Constitution. There are two primary roadblocks to further assaults on our liberties. Despite continued Republican control of Congress, there is still a firm alliance there between civil-liberties Democrats and conservative Republican libertarians, especially in the Senate. That...