A car bomb in Times Square. The assassination attempt on an Armed Forces recruiter in Little Rock. These smaller scale terror attacks and many more like them have been foiled through the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which allows authorities to focus on a national security target even though there is no proof that he or she is affiliated with a larger terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda.
Yet this "Lone Wolf" provision - the one that has helped stop the numerous smaller scale terror attacks that have occurred so often in the last few years - is the EXACT thing that some members of Senate, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman (D-Vt.), want to eliminate.
The Washington Post has the story on this. Read it by clicking here.
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