{"id":666975,"date":"2026-09-11T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=666975"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:40:00","slug":"shoulda-coulda-woulda-hillary-clinton-gives-flippant-answer-when-pressed-on-patriot-act-support-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=666975","title":{"rendered":"“Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda”: Hillary Clinton Gives Flippant Answer When Pressed On Patriot Act Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda”: Hillary Clinton Gives Flippant Answer When Pressed On Patriot Act Support<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hillary Clinton attempted to wave off criticism of her post-9\/11 votes this week<\/strong>, telling a Columbia University audience that Monday-morning quarterbacking carries its own bias and that relitigating the Patriot Act does little good.<\/p>\n

The former secretary of state, who teaches crisis decision-making at Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics, was pressed by a moderator on whether Americans were “served well” by the Patriot Act and the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and on what she remembered about the deliberations.<\/p>\n

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“I think what you just heard is such a reminder about how difficult decision-making is in the midst of a crisis,” Clinton said, speaking at a Columbia SIPA Institute of Global Politics panel titled “The 9\/11 Attacks 25 Years Later: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten.”<\/p>\n

“And that’s the course that the dean and I teach every day, or every week, because hindsight is always perfect.”<\/p>\n

“But it’s got as much bias as anything else. And so looking back and saying shoulda, coulda, woulda doesn’t really help us,” the failed presidential candidate added.<\/p>\n

Clinton was a freshman senator from New York when hijacked airliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers in her home state. Clinton joined<\/a> 97 colleagues<\/strong> in voting for the USA Patriot Act that October. Then-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) was the lone no.<\/p>\n

Days earlier, the Senate had cleared the AUMF 98-0<\/strong>. Across the Capitol, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) stood alone<\/a> as the only member of Congress to vote against it.<\/p>\n

That authorization became the legal blank check for roughly two decades of American military adventurism spanning multiple wars in the Middle East and multiple administrations<\/strong>, power lawmakers in both parties have since tried, and failed, to claw back.Gives\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Patriot Act’s Section 215<\/strong>, the so-called “business records” provision, became the legal foundation for the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of American phone records, a program the public learned about only in 2013 through the Edward Snowden leaks<\/a>. Congress scaled it back with the USA Freedom Act in 2015. The authority finally lapsed in March 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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