Say what you will about the Patriot Act but it did work here. Ironically it's the only case anyone ever seems to be able to cite when they whine about our civil liberties being taken away and I ask them to name even one instance. If they can, then it's always Padilla, and his imprisonment had little to do with the Patriot Act. Well he finally got his day in court, and, thanks to the Patriot Act, he's being indicted. Should he, a US citizen, have been held with no charges and no lawyer? No. Is he guilty of being a terrorist? Well I don't think even he denied going to an Al Queda training camp. Unfortunately they weren't able to gather enough evidence to indict him, except through the new avenues of investigation opened up through the Patriot Act. You know, the same act that is decried as evil even though no one has yet been able to tell me what was so evil about it.