Patriot Act News

As we count our blessings on Thanksgiving, let's remember why we can do so in safety.

Raising the U.S. governmenta s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democratsa ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

POLITICS-US: Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions William Fisher NEW YORK, 23 Nov - With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on ...

The Georgian Parliament is to discuss adopting a Patriot Act, which its authors say curbs the terrorist threat to Georgia.

Nov. 17, 2009 - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is taking comments until Dec.

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was informed that the House had taken less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that languished for a month in the Senate, his aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

There are things we know, said the philosophical former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and there are things we know we don't know.

In anticipation of the upcoming Senate debate over Patriot Act reauthorization, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to declassify key information pertaining to the law's "business records" provision .

Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and Senate.

OUR NATION was profoundly changed by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and we will carry that legacy with us forever.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the resulting deaths of 3,000 innocent Americans instantly changed the face of the United States, its government and its people forever.

EXERCISING RIGHTS: Americans exercise their constitutional rights. Many individuals question whether the passing of the Patriot Act was necessary to save American lives.

On Sept. 11, 2001, 2,976 Americans died in a series of terrorist attacks on American soil.

Under the current interpretation of these laws, persons may fall within such categories on a number of bases, including ties to US-supported opposition groups or actions considered legal under international law.

Outraged to learn that government agents have been spying on American anti-war demonstrators, Pasadena Congressman Adam Schiff has joined a chorus of lawmakers and activists calling for an investigation into potential civil liberties abuses by Bush administration officials.

Beware the terrorists among us: a traumatized child soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo; a political activist from Cameroon; and a kidnapping victim from Sri Lanka.

Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today: Today's question: The House and Senate are moving forward with different bills to reauthorize the Patriot Act, which expires at the end of the year.

Advisers to Obama "are preparing three options for escalating the war effort in Afghanistan, all of them calling for more American troops, as he moves closer to a decision on the way forward in the eight-year-old war," the New York Times reports.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to leave your feedback. Rush Limbaugh: Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee voted to strip the Patriot Act of a provision allowing the government to spy on people who aren't linked to known terrorist groups -- the so-called lone wolf provision.

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, one of four Democratic candidates for Senate, said yesterday there are three issues on which he will not compromise: war and peace, civil liberties, and human rights.