Columnist Walter Williams suggested, via Instapundit, that a provision be added to the Patriot Act which states that information obtained through the powers granted in the Patriot Act can only be used in court if it can be definitively tied to terrorism. Now at first this sounded good to me, as it seems that the anti-Patriot Act crowd who say it's taking away our civil liberties even thought they've never read the Act, and cannot name a single civil liberty which has been denied to them might be sated by such a provision, but then I realized this could take things the wrong way. Next thing you know we'll have terrorists on the stands with their lawyers saying things like, "According to this Reuters article, he is not a terrorist, he is a militant." Or, "This wasn't an act of terrorism, this was an act of war, and so that evidence cannot be used." All this provision would do is give activist anti-American left wingers (by the way, not saying all activists and left wingers are anti-American) another way to get their "freedom fighters" free.