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Patriot Act under fire.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
The USA Patriot Act has come under fire in U.S. District Court from Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York. The case related to National Security Letters which, according to Wired News, were used under the Patriot Act "to issue 143,074 requests for phone and internet records from 2003 to 2005," and which, "as a recent Inspector General report showed ... led to abuses and sloppiness." Judge Marrero found that strict secrecy rules imposed on recipients of National Security Letters (NSLs) "amounted to prior restraint on speech and allowed the FBI to pick and choose which persons would be gagged, based on whether the feds believed the target might speak critically of the government."
In his ruling, Judge ...
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...a forum Thursday night that the USA Patriot Act dramatically violates constitutionally...to the forum, which was organized by Patriot Act opponents, in a University of Oregon...of speakers sounding the alarm on the Patriot Act. An overreaching executive branch had...
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...terrorists as part of an expansion of the Patriot Act and challenged critics of the law to...enforcement powers and defended the original Patriot Act, which is set to expire in 2005. He...he told Mr. Bush onstage. "The Patriot Act is a law; the Patriot Act has the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Patriot Act under fire.(Inside Track)(Brief article)