Susan Herman, President of the ACLU, Calls for Examination of the Patriot Act's Costs and Benefits as its 10th Anniversary Approaches

Wednesday, October 26, Marks One Decade of the Act in AmericaNEW YORK, NY (October 24, 2011)—In the days following the terror of 9/11, domestic security issues rose to the top of our national agenda. The mental state of emergency surrounding our antiterrorism policies has continued into the Obama administration, and so many hastily adopted measures have survived and escaped serious examination. But the Act demands too many tradeoffs of our own citizens, says American Civil Liberties Union President Susan Herman in her new book TAKING LIBERTIES: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American