Eliot Spitzer Caught by USA PATRIOT Act?

Photo from source, Newsweek

Exsqueeze me? Are you kiddin' me, man? The Orwellian-named USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001--I wish I was kidding) was created after 9/11, and enacted by a Congress that didn't read it. It allegedly was enacted to "protect" us from terrorists by relaxing some of our "freedoms." The freedoms we're supposedly fighting for, but I'm getting off on a tangent (I do that a lot).

But now it comes out that Eliot Spitzer's little sex scandal was uncovered because of these new surveillance methods? Is Eliot Spitzer a terrorist, or was it the hooker?

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Unintended Consequences
Spitzer got snagged by the fine print of the Patriot Act.

When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, law-enforcement agencies hailed it as a powerful tool to help track down the confederates of Osama bin Laden. No one expected it would end up helping to snag the likes of Eliot Spitzer. The odd connection between the antiterror law and Spitzer's trysts with call girls illustrates how laws enacted for one purpose often end up being used very differently once they're on the books. . .

Read more at: Newsweek