Peter Erlinder, law professor and former president of the National Lawyers’ Guild, says that the Patriot Act’s supposed justification is gone and calls upon Congress for its repeal. This is the least tedious offshoot of the ‘Bush knew’ debate I’ve read yet. If the attacks should not have been ‘unexpected’ with existing intelligence practices, then the Justice Dept’s vast power grab at the expense of civil liberties to prevent future terrorist attacks is based on a lie.