Don't Let Congress Expand the Patriot Act in Secret

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Wed, 18 May 2005 22:37:00 -0500

Don't Let Congress Expand the Patriot Act in Secret.

 

 

 

Don't Let Congress Expand the Patriot Act in Secret

 

The Senate Intelligence Committee will be holding a secret meeting

tomorrow to expand the Patriot Act. Instead of listening to the

public concern about the Patriot Act's infamous provisions, the

Senators on this Committee will be meeting behind closed doors to

discuss expanding the government power to conduct surveillance and

obtain personal records.

 

The Patriot Act is too important to be expanded in secret. Click here

to urge Congress to hold open meetings when it considers changes to

the Patriot Act and to fully consider public input on these proposed

expansions of government surveillance powers.

 

The proposed Patriot Act expansion would make permanent all those

provisions that expand government power. For example, it would make

permanent the section that allows the FBI to seize secretly a vast

array of sensitive personal information and belongings -- including

medical, library and business records -- using secret intelligence

tools that do not require individual criminal activity and that do not

require specific facts connecting these records to terrorism, to a

terrorist, or to a spy.

 

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Congress passed the Patriot Act in in a hurry with virtually no debate

.. . . don't let them do it again.

 

Take action! Click here to urge your Senators to hold open and public

hearings on the expansion of the Patriot Act.

 

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