Just 45 days following the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Bush administration’s USA Patriot Act draft legislation was signed into law on October 26, 2001, “a law that significantly expanded the search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.” [1, 2]
The 300 page document was ready to go so fast because Senator Joe Biden had written it in 1994 as the “Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995” following the Oklahoma bombing, but it had been rejected up til then. [3, 4]