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Biden bragged he wrote the Patriot Act. Trump should kill it

By Jack Hunter

Published March 12, 2020 6:34pm ET

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Biden bragged he wrote the Patriot Act. Trump should kill it — A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah. | (Bernard Schoenburg/The State Journal-Register via AP)

In 2003, then-Senate candidate Barack Obama called the Patriot Act unconstitutional, “shoddy,” and “dangerous.” He went on to win the presidency running against it.

What was his running mate Joe Biden’s position on the Patriot Act? He bragged that he basically wrote it! This is worth remembering this week as Washington wrestles with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reform and privacy protection.

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