Chip Berlet on "the New Witch Hunt"

The article "Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report," by Chip Berlet of Talk To Action was recently featured on The Huffington Post. From the article:

Scholar William W. Keller argues that in times of wide-spread social unrest and tensions, some liberals retreat from their oversight function as protectors of civil liberties and allow authoritarian methods to be implemented in order to restore order and defend the state. Right now in Washington, DC, civil liberties activists have built a coalition that spans the political spectrum from left to right. This coalition recently managed to block legislation titled the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act." It was, as detailed here, lousy legislation and deserved to be squashed.