NAPOLITANO: The coming police state

Shortly after the attacks of 9/11, the George W. Bush administration offered legislation that it had mysteriously drafted before 9/11

BY JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO

We have seen this before.

A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties — and this shrinkage will somehow keep us all safe.