The Patriot Act was used 1,618 times for drugs, 122 times for fraud, and only 15 times for terrorism. 
The authors of the Patriot Act always intended that its provisions would be permanent. The politically expedient thing to do would have been to include a sunset provision, to acknowledge a temporary moment of crisis that required special measures for prosecutors to pursue terrorists.
(Source: newstome1)
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