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What did Bush do when September 11 attacks happened? United States responded by invading Afghanistan in order to fight Talibans and they brought Patriot Act in order to greatly tighten US national security; the act included three main provisions:

expanded abilities of law enforcement to surveil, including by tapping domestic and international phones;

eased interagency communication to allow federal agencies to more effectively use all available resources in counterterrorism efforts; and

increased penalties for terrorism crimes and an expanded list of activities which would qualify someone to be charged with terrorism.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

>>mrkram+(OP)
That's a non-sequitur. Bush wasn't President when this happened.

The critic of Bush who spent the first three years of his term under investigation by the US's intelligence agencies was. If they'd have been doing their job maybe we'd know more about who commissioned the Surgisphere paper, and it would have actually made the news.