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Business groups want to limit Patriot Act
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Oct 06, 2005 01:01pm |
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Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
News Date | Thursday, October 6, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Some of the nation's most powerful business groups are splitting with the Bush administration over whether to restrict the anti-terror USA Patriot Act.
The business groups complained to Congress on Wednesday that the Patriot Act makes it too easy for the government to get confidential business records. That put them at odds with one of President Bush's top priorities -- the unfettered extension of the law passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In the first organized criticism of the act from the business sector, these groups endorsed amendments that would require investigators to say how the information they seek is linked to individual suspected terrorists or spies, and would allow businesses to challenge the requests in courts and to speak publicly about those requests.
Their views could make a difference as Congress heads toward a vote on whether to extend some controversial provisions of the act that expire at the end of the year. |
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