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"IN THE WEB OF LIFE, WE ARE ALL CONNECTED."
EXCERPT:
Since 2001, the FBI has issued thousands of special warrants to carry out surveillance and get personal records from hospitals, libraries and other institutions.
Under the Patriot Act, Jacky Griffin is even banned from telling anybody that the warrant has been issued.
Four states - Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont, and more than 300 towns - have passed resolutions against it, although now, the Justice Department is looking to introd
ce a Patriot Act Two which would be even tougher, and George Bush says he plans to make it an election issue.
But it is quite possible a Democrat government would barely change a word of it.
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"Playing catch-up"
Mary de La Rosa is a young lawyer w
ho was working on similar legislation for Bill Clinton's National Security Council.
"The Patriot Act isn't a sea change," she says.
"It's an incremental change. A lot of the powers existed before. They're just easier to use."
"The old security laws were written before there was an internet and cell phones. So we've been playing catch-up."
"It's not the law that's the problem, it's that not enough is known about it."
MORE AT LINK:
â┚¬Ã…¡ÃƒÆ’”�šÃ”š© BBC MMIV http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from...e
nt/3820079.stm
UNCENSORED NEWS & VIEWS, from www.dandelionbooks.net
//\\Your Newsletter Hub of Awareness Leading To Solutions//\\
"IN THE WEB OF LIFE, WE ARE ALL CONNECTED."
EXCERPT:
Since 2001, the FBI has issued thousands of special warrants to carry out surveillance and get personal records from hospitals, libraries and other institutions.
Under the Patriot Act, Jacky Griffin is even banned from telling anybody that the warrant has been issued.
Four states - Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont, and more than 300 towns - have passed resolutions against it, although now, the Justice Department is looking to introd
ce a Patriot Act Two which would be even tougher, and George Bush says he plans to make it an election issue.
But it is quite possible a Democrat government would barely change a word of it.
r
"Playing catch-up"
Mary de La Rosa is a young lawyer w
ho was working on similar legislation for Bill Clinton's National Security Council.
"The Patriot Act isn't a sea change," she says.
"It's an incremental change. A lot of the powers existed before. They're just easier to use."
"The old security laws were written before there was an internet and cell phones. So we've been playing catch-up."
"It's not the law that's the problem, it's that not enough is known about it."
MORE AT LINK:
â┚¬Ã…¡ÃƒÆ’”�šÃ”š© BBC MMIV http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from...e
nt/3820079.stm