As the latest massive corruption and incompetence of our nation's intelligence bureaucracy was being revealed, top administration brass huddled in secrecy to work out the details of their next ratchet step toward a police state. Their furtive power grab reveals an increasingly clear pattern of behavior from the Bush White House. Shortly after 9/11, A.G. Ashcroft ramrodded through the USA Patriot Act, granting federal cops unprecedented power to spy on and detain broadly defined "terrorists" and those who "aid" them, effectively suspending much of the Bill of Rights. Congress lacked the chance to debate or even read the bill prior … Continue reading In the Dead of the Night