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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/patriotact.ap/ Three cheers for radical, militant librarians!

This really deserves it's own thread; but have you ever heard of Venona? I would have missed it myself had I not read The Red Spy Queen. Venona was a secret NSA evesdropping program targeting the Soviet Union. Elizabeth Bentley was a Soviet spy who turned herself in to the FBI. It was...

Feingold starts talking tough on the Patriot Act. I wonder when the IRS will start using Sneak And Peek warrants?

Link There are those on the left and right opposed to renewing some sections of the Patriot Act. Among them, former conservative Republican Congressman Bob Barr, who has started an organization called Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances. There is a page where you can send a quickie...

Segment from Bullsh!t in Real Player format.

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This site -- being set up by the ABA -- looks like it will be a valuable link. http://www.patriotdebates.com/ The idea is to put serious essays up on the various parts of the PATRIOT Act (avoiding the emotional -type arguments often made) prior to the sunsetting of the Act so that people can...

Cleopatra said in this thread: I would like to hear the reason(s).

Here is what I have so far on an article I am writing. Forgive me, It's a rough draft. Comments? ---------------- The law passed with little debate 45 days after September 11, 2001 called HR3162 or "USA Patriot Act" is attacking our rights. [Source...

I have heard many posters on many boards claim that the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. Everytime I have asked for clarification I have been given generalizations at best or just told to read it for myself. I did just that. I read it and dang'd if I can find anything in it that is decidedly...

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I have voiced concern about the men and women in Iraq dying. I have said that I question our involvement and I don't like allot of the things that are going on over there. I have also stated that I realize the danger of jingoism and blind faith in our leaders. That being said let me make it...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has struck down a provision of the post-September 11 USA Patriot Act, saying it was unconstitutional. The court said a paragraph that prohibits providing "expert advice or assistance" to designated international terrorist organizations is a violation of the First...

Does anyone know if this is the first documented case of the FBI misusing the PATRIOT Act?

I was wondering if CEO esq, being a lawyer and one who seems to be quite informed on the law would be willing to give us his opinion of the Patriot Act. Whether it is legal or illegal, threatens our civil liberties or not, overall a good or bad idea, etc. I right now have mixed opinions on the...

Funny, but I've yet to hear what the Democrats would have done. It does strike me as funny that this is criticism from the same crowd that silenced Juanita Broaderick (?) as brutally as they did, and who slammed Bill Clinton's other accusers, smearing them in the national media, in some cases...

Federalist Position Paper: The 2001 USA PATRIOT Act http://www.federalist.com/papers/03-41_paper.asp

From this story in Wired:

http://indyweek.com/durham/2003-07-02/cover.html That's not what the whole of the article is about, and it covers many other instances of civil disobedience of the Patroit Act by citizens, but I thought that an entire police department refusing to play along demanded attention. Good for them.

Flag Waving patriot. The other week I was feeling patriotic so I went out to buy and American flag. Ironically I found flags that were made in communist China. Not for me. So instead I bought a 13 star colonial flag (screw them johnny come lately states) . It was made in Mexico. The flag...