Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened (nytimes.com)

Gift link [1]. But now the New York Times puts a login wall on gift links, so if you can't bypass it somehow I got the gift link from a related (not a substitute) article [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/opinion/911-patriot-act-t...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/11/since-9-11-fear-has-driv...