Patriot Act News

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it.Three cases in particular offer clues:- As a judge on the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Sotomayor dismissed ...

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.

I'm writing because college students and young adults were screwed by Washington.

This July 4 feels different. We no longer have a president in the White House who questions our patriotism if we disagree with him.

Don't think what you read is your own private business, because it's not: The FBI can take your library records and gag librarians from revealing their visit.

While you can never get too much exposure to the First Amendment, your eyes can glaze over without fresh insight - a new defense of it, a new argument limiting it.

Thomas Hill is running for Congress. The 43-year-old Concord electrician announced his run for the 8th District seat in an e-mail message sent out Sunday night.

I must confess I'm not overtly familiar with America's controversial Patriot Act, so I wonder if I'm going to get into trouble for declaring that I feel the need to trash New York.

Some members of Congress, increasingly impatient with the Obama administration's "give diplomacy a chance" stance toward Iran and North Korea, are pressing for new punitive measures against those countries.

Newsmax has long been a booster of Bernard Kerik. When the former New York police chief was nominated by President Bush to be homeland security secretary in 2004, Newsmax was quick to accuse the "leftist media" of mounting "an unprecedented, full-scale attack" on Kerik by writing "journalistic hatchet jobs" about this "heroic cop" who "will do an ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has secret reasons for ordering an Internet service provider to keep quiet about a subpoena seeking information about the ISP's customers.

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June 17, 2009 - A regulatory clarification Tuesday on information sharing arrangements permitted by the USA PATRIOT Act says that fraudulent activities underlying suspected terrorist financing or illegal money laundering are within the scope of the rule and may be shared without triggering civil liability.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

If the Pentagon is teaching its people to equate protest with "low-level terrorism," how different, really, is Washington from Tehran? P resident Barack Obama, referring to the violent attacks on protesters against the controversial election results in Iran's just-completed presidential election, this week lectured Iran's government, saying, ...

Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that their private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all.

Below is a very extensive compilation of articles about Sonia - her good and bad points and her chances of making it over the hurdles.

Here is another piece of evidence that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might be appropriately skeptical of curtailing civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism: Judge Sonia Sotomayor expressed skepticism in March 2003 about the expanded government surveillance powers in the USA Patriot Act, citing what she referred to as its broader ...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor expressed skepticism in March 2003 about the expanded government surveillance powers in the USA Patriot Act , citing what she referred to as its broader authority "to impose nationwide wiretaps with little judicial supervision" and to monitor Internet use in search of terrorists.

The attempt to justify the ID card scheme on the grounds of the risk of terrorism is not sustainable a ' we simply don't need it The Identity Cards Act was introduced during the period of global insecurity following 9/11 a ' and during what some would say was the paranoia of the era of President Bush and his vice-president Dick Cheney.