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Article: Gore challenges Bush policy on civil liberties, homeland security.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 9, 2003
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Byline: Shannon McCaffrey
WASHINGTON _ Former Vice President Al Gore called Sunday for the repeal of the USA Patriot Act and accused the Bush administration of exploiting Americans' fear of terrorism for political gain.
In an hour-long speech to a raucous, supportive crowd of 3,000, Gore said the Bush administration has been preoccupied with an "assault on civil liberties" since the Sept. 11 attacks and has not done enough to make the nation safer.
"I want to challenge the Bush administration's implicit assumption that we have to give up many of our traditional freedoms in order to be safe from terrorists," Gore told the cheering crowd at ...