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Worry over legal freedoms since 9/11

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    Lis Wiehl and Tamara Holder discuss the lasting ramifications of 9/11 on our legal freedoms

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-- get to the legal panel now as we wrap things up here on the hunt.

With me in the studio -- always least we'll Fox News legal analyst and camera hold up criminal defense.

Thirty attorney.

And phone -- contributed good to see you both as always.

At least we I know we we had a couple topics that we were gonna talk -- today but I wanted to focus if we can on this day able days on 9/11 eleven years on.

As a lot of people.

Very worried about the legal freedoms that we've lost one of our viewers wrote in -- earlier today at the Patriot Act essentially repeal the Fourth Amendment so and it doesn't Paula time will only -- that even with free you know less freedom we -- -- -- without that.

Less -- what do you think.

Let's freeze certainly the Patriot Act came such -- the heels of 9/11 and 2001 and and it was I've rushed to get something -- -- get something signed quickly and with a bipartisan rush to get that done.

And since so then it's been taken back taken back taken back by the courts and by the legislature so.

-- only with the we have less freedoms that we did in the N 9/11 eleven years ago yes we have more freedoms that we did when the Patriot Act was signed.

Absolutely because that has been drawn back are those things out there was so that -- watched yes but there is something really good things have come out of it which is now the FBI and CIA can work together.

And some of -- enough that it had happened before 9/11 maybe 9/11 would never have happened.

-- -- senior -- in Paris saying we saw the freedom to complain even when that goes away then we're really in trouble.

That's pretty good point and we -- -- use of that freedom quite separate oil law but did but what what do you think that the net loss or gain it is in terms of all legal freedom since nine elevenths.

I think that we still have great people freedoms.

To see that we don't.

Bothers me because first of all America is the greatest country in the world saying don't miss -- right you have exactly and it.

Sitting at my clearest cut off for saying -- -- -- for or for criticizing the government which is something that happens literally in other countries.

-- outside you know there are problems -- -- that there that this only to worked be worked out the Patriot Act.

They're -- people who -- put on no fly list.

For no reason whatsoever.

As a result there -- wiretap issues as a result.

So those are the things that we will just have to we'll have to play themselves out so -- We need to be vigilant about our own freedoms and liberty but we also need to understand that we -- living in a different world.

Yes and remember the what the wiretaps and the trap on traces of this -- things like that those that it is I -- always has been a mechanism to get the temple courts now set up.

To give you quick wiretap you think that law enforcement to get back with wiretaps to get -- when -- -- as long as you've got probable cause so.

Law -- just do it the right way and we don't have a problem.

For you have a problem as you know being a former prosecutor and -- criminal defense attorney that.

Those are issues that we see just in regular criminal cases every day with wiretaps and subpoenas and you know forever -- -- all those things so this is not anything new it's just a matter of how would be applied in the new world of terrorism and -- makes it -- how do we protect.

Regular normal law abiding citizens from the people that were really -- Just.

Quickly before we get that we -- running out of time today unfortunately but there was.

-- -- suggestion yesterday that -- gonna include a law mall illnesses and cancers in particular.

In what first responders who rushed and to the site of the attacks.

Here in new York and elsewhere.

And that colorful.

Legally speaking don't we have every single obligation to cover those.

-- -- the show causation get a certification that this was that did not eleventh with a precipitating factor to their disease to their cancer.

We owe a legal -- moral and ethical.

But god publication to those people to get them to get them what -- made absolutely.

-- -- -- -- -- -- Extra that there are 55 NYPD officers who died and 64.

Firemen who died as a result.

-- some kind of really did a fact to that spot and they say it's similar to rustic kind of -- that it's similar to.

-- forward forage in the gulf war syndrome just.

That particles or whatever that cause these things and likely sign the causation is what's really important.

And there is a process they've that they've already created and when it's time to get health care camp and make it easy for the threat is writing them.

I guess one of the problems is just getting out without getting the diagnosis getting the -- established before these people.

Actually dying in some cases it's not it's not necessarily easily done but it it should be doesn't morally ethically.

Legal and I don't think that there is a dispute that it is being done right I -- -- us for years I've read what the states -- it's not anymore.

At least -- and tell her ultimate -- I'm -- to -- through a little today -- we had a very busy.

How -- -- -- on the hop and thank you both very much for being here.

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