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Cooler Heads Review Patriot Act in Congress
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 05, 2005 07:18pm |
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| Category | General |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 6, 2005 01:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Disclosure of a 75 percent increase in secret wiretaps and ”sneak and peek” searches since 2000 is likely to provide ammunition for civil liberties groups determined to modify the USA Patriot Act when Congress begins two months of debate on the law Tuesday.
Parts of the law are due to expire at the end of this year and Pres. Bush has called on Congress to renew the law in its entirety.
Warrants of this kind are authorised by the USA Patriot Act. However, the FBI also uses the warrants in ”plain vanilla” criminal investigations that have nothing to do with terrorism.
Pres. Bush, Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales and Republican leaders in Congress have asked for renewal of the bill in its entirety. The battle begins Tuesday with the testimony of Gonzales, who has recommended that the law be expanded.
In opposition are most Democrats, some Republicans, and an array of civil libertarian groups that span the political spectrum from left to right, conservatives to liberals.
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