I find it hard to believe the long title came first and just happened to condense to USA PATRIOT. That had to be at least partially a backronym[1]. [1] http://

I find it hard to believe the long title came first and just happened to condense to USA PATRIOT. That had to be at least partially a backronym[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym