Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions

[Mari333]

TOTAL HORSESHIT!



WASHINGTON – The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday.
Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law's authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called "lone wolf" terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps.
The provision on business records was long criticized by rights groups as giving the government access to citizens' library records, and a coalition of liberal and conservative groups complained that the Patriot Act gives the government too much authority to snoop into Americans' private lives.












http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_patriot_act

[Why Syzygy]

1. Do the representatives have to vote on this? nt

[Mari333]

4. I would like to think so

hes playing the middle again, appeasing the idiots, who dont give 2 shits about him anyway.

[elocs]

2. See here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4060844

[truebrit71]

3. I'm still waiting for my change....

..anyone seen it?

[villager]

6. not yet...

n/t

[On the Road]

5. The Roving Wiretaps Should Probably stay in Place

The previous system has been been made obsolete by wireless technology. The important thing is that it has to go in front of a judge and be authorized.

The others I can't speak for. Library books may not be part of the core right of privacy, but it seems a good place to draw the line.

[ixion]

7. The unPATRIOTic Act is unconstitutional, and should be repealed

immediately, and with extreme prejudice.

[Laelth]

8. Make me vomit! This is not the change I voted for. n/t

:mad:

:dem:

-Laelth

[Dragonfli]

9. The lesser of two evils argument grows weaker by the day. He is no better.