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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

By Walin & Klarich

Newsweek reported recently on the case of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of the State of New York who resigned after his alleged dalliance with a prostitute in a Washington, DC hotel became public. So who brought the governor down? It would seem Osama bin Laden. What?? How, exactly, does one link the downfall of a New York State governor because of his purported tryst with a call girl to a terror mastermind? Well, according to the Newsweek article, after the coordinated terrorist attacks perpetrated by bin Laden and his al Qaeda cohorts in New York City, Washington, DC, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, Congress replied by enacting the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (aka the ?USA Patriot Act? or, simply the ?Patriot Act?)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).