Appearing on Fox News Saturday morning, Fox analyst Bob Beckel said that the Patriot Act had been passed in panic after 9/11, but that the event was over a decade old and the laws it spurred needed to be revised.
“A lot of these abuses began with the Patriot Act,” Beckel said, responding to a discussion about surveillance. “As usual, when we have a crisis, we pass laws very quickly. And the Patriot Act, if you read it, allowed for a lot of the blanket interpretation for this stuff to happen. The Patriot Act should go away. I know you hate to hear this, but 9/11 is over a decade old. It’s time for us to move on.”
“Mvoe on, Bob?” said Jonathan Hoenig. “What about ‘Never Forget?’ I think it’s disgusting.”
“It’s a day you shouldn’t forget, it’s also a day that shouldn’t tie you down,” Beckel said.
Hoenig followed up after the show:
Watch the full clip below, via Fox News:
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