Within six weeks of 9 11 in a nation gripped by fear and hatred Congress overwhelmingly
approved the USA PATRIOT Act drafted in secret by the Department of Justice. There was almost
no debate and few in Congress were given more than a few hours to read the 342-page document.
In America's Unpatriotic Acts award-winning journalist and university professor Walter M.
Brasch looks not just at the effects of the PATRIOT Act upon the nation but also at the
innumerable civil rights violations conducted in the United States as well as by the United
States in foreign countries during the three years following 9 11.
