Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday June 5, 2002
[snip] "But there will be a legal fight, pursued by the American Civil Liberties Union. Case by case, the cause of everyday freedoms will put up a struggle against the new security requirements of the terrorist age, and they will doubtless emerge diminished but not entirely defeated. The fact that battle will be so hard-fought says a lot of good things about this country. America's vulnerability lies in its virtues."
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