] For the first time in our history, American citizens have
] been seized by the executive branch of government and put
] in prison without being charged with a crime, without
] having the right to a trial, without being able to see a
] lawyer, and without even being able to contact their
] families.

Increasingly I must insist that brevity is genius, but many of you will enjoy watching Gore rip the President a new one for paragraph after paragraph, even if the material might be redundant for you. If 9-11 made everyone more radical, here you can really see how deep the chasm is between the left and the right. What I will say is most interesting is that Gore is even fair. He is careful, for example, to acknowledge that some of the sections of the Patriot act aren't unreasonable.... And yet he still has much to complain about.

Al Gore reads the administration the riot act.