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"2nd Circuit Appears Skeptical of Validity of Patriot Act's National Security Letters" (How Appealing)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:35:44 GMT

"2nd Circuit Appears Skeptical of Validity of Patriot Act's National Security Letters": law.com provides this report....

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ACLU Asks Appeals Court To Affirm Decision Striking Down Patriot Act's "National Security Letter" Provision (Indybay newswire)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:56 GMT

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 : NEW YORK - In oral arguments today, the American Civil Liberties Union urged a federal appeals court to uphold a decision striking down the national security letter (NSL) provision of the Patriot Act. This provision gives the FBI the authority to issue letters demanding private information about people within the United States, and to place the recipients of the...

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Thread: 7189678711621396525. Post by norbizness (Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:16:27 GMT

But was everyone at the wedding wearing flag pins? Because, if not, the whole thing can be annulled via Patriot Act III. You might think: "But that's silly! There's no Patriot Act III!" Now who's being naive?

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Proof That the Media Manipulates the U.S. Presidential Race (Public Blog)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:24:54 GMT

... against the government, that is imposing fascist policies against the people such as the REAL ID ACT, The Patriot Act, The Veterans' Disarmament Act among others, that breaks their own laws and rules to silence the people. Imagine a people too fearful to stand up for their rights, that allows the gov’t to trample allover them, that no longer has the ability to speak up against their oppressors,...

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Google Unveils Android's App Store (FinanMart.com - IT News)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:05:00 GMT

Joe Biden has a mixed record on privacy and Internet civil liberties issues. He often votes with the FBI and media companies against consumers and citizens. He sponsored legislation designed to make it illegal to circumvent copy-protection -- even on content and devices you legally own. He also sought to weaken encryption, and introduce a bill like the controversial PATRIOT Act long before 9/11....

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Can you see dems? (Crooked Timber)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:21:55 GMT

Well, at least Ponnuru admits he’s not making any counter-argument to the Holbo-Yglesias-Drum line. But if he wants to start saying that people who oppose the Patriot Act must think terrorism is ok, he’s going to need to find some standards of his own. Ours – which he proposes to borrow – are not up [...]

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Judges Question Whether National Security Letters Need To Come With Gag Orders (Techdirt)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:14:00 GMT

The Patriot Act allows the FBI to issue "National Security Letters" to ISPs and other organizations, seeking information on users of those service providers -- with an automatic gag order forbidding the service provider from telling anyone that they have received an NSL. Not surprisingly, this resulted in the NSLs being widely abused , with the FBI issuing them in many, many cases when they...

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Austin drummer jailed as 'narco-terrorist'... (The Daily Swarm)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:39:44 GMT

Jake Mitchell, the drummer for Austin’s Boxing Lesson, was sentenced a couple of weeks ago to 60 months in federal prison on marijuana charges. What makes Mitchell’s case particularly unsettling is that he was charged under the Patriot Act and has been branded a Narco-Terrorist. The band went public with the details today as Mitchell prepares to begin his sentence early next month, hoping to...

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Don Cheadle Turns Traitor (ComingSoon.net)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:53:48 GMT

... came across my desk. There were a lot of ideas and stories about security and Guantanamo and The Patriot Act and what rights you would give up in order to be secure and terrorism and radical Islam. All these ideas were floating around when this script came across my desk. It was interesting to me because the character that I play in the movie, Samir Horn, seemed to be somebody who encapsulated...

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I am sure there are some (BlueNC - Comments)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:19:25 GMT

I am sure there are some votes he voted for i would agree with. With all things being equal i tend to look at the votes that concern me the most and i expect Democratic congressmen to vote differently than the Hayes and Foxx of this world. Sadly in many of these issues like the Patriot Act, The thought crime bill and other attacks on our civil liberties folks like Etheridge, Price and Miller...

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BSA: The School Of Hard Knocks Continues To Grind Out The Lessons (Bank Lawyer's Blog)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:14:00 GMT

As I observed this past March , "I would expect that being a BSA Officer would be as much fun these days as being a jihadist caught in an open field in Iraq under a full moon with an Apache attack helicopter hovering over your right shoulder." Add a Texas bank to the list of testifiers to that truth. T Bank’s failure to meet regulators’ standards for keeping watch for suspicious transactions has landed...

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Chambliss' rhetoric doesn't match his actions (JasonPye.com)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:56:24 GMT

... Declaration of Independence. He voted for McCain-Feingold (First Amendment), he voted for the USA PATRIOT Act and the new FISA bill (Fourth and Fifth Amendments) and he voted to expanded Medicare (drastically increasing entitlement spending, not to mention the lack of constitutional authority for such a program). These are not the votes of someone who claims to believe in the Declaration...

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Pelosi To Face Tough Questions On Leadership From Online Crowd (Threat Level)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:10:25 GMT

... morning West Coast time, was whether the Democrats will "repeal anti-freedom measures such as the Patriot Act, ban warrantless wiretapping, and make sure that all prisoners held by the US enjoy the same civil rights (including habeas corpus)" if Barack Obama wins the election in November. Apart from that, Pelosi faces a host of other tough questions from the Digg community. "You were given...

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The Most Assholish Thing You Could Possibly Do Right Now (The Trouble With Spikol)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:11:34 GMT

... and the rhetoric of taking back our country? I guess now, because you're sore losers, you like the Patriot Act and the way the Supreme Court has been shaping up. This is the legacy of my mother's women's movement? Dear god, I hope not. I wasn't brought up this way. Granted, there are very few of these people, but the media is making major hay out of them. From Rebecca Traister via Salon:...

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National Security versus Individual Privacy – No Line (The Agonist)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:07:22 GMT

When I first heard the name of the set of laws and procedures enacted to protect us after 9/11, I shuddered. The Patriot Act. . . . Surely, I thought, anything with a title so obviously intended to excite gimcrack patriotism and intimidate thoughtful criticism must be cause for dismay. It must be an enormous web of open-ended licenses and self-serving justifications whose net result will be...

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62 Democrats voted against (BlueNC - Comments)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:22:15 GMT

62 Democrats voted against the Patriot Act. Bob Etheridge wasn't one of them.

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Thanks, scharrison, I corrected it (BlueNC - Comments)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:41:39 GMT

With all due respect to Rep. Price, we need someone who is going to go to Congress and represent our views! I have a deep love for the Constitution of the United States. (With all due respect, Mr. President, the Constitution is far more than a G-D piece of paper; it is your job description.) Rep. Price should have never voted for the USA Patriot Act. I don't exactly agree with BJ Lawson on each...

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I stand corrected... (BlueNC - Comments)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:29:10 GMT

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Patriot Act (The Daily Dish)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:54:00 GMT

A very incisive critique of the McCain campaign's constant disavowal of the notion that they are questioning Obama's patriotism, and constant insistence in other statements that he is a traitor to his country, seeking to legislate defeat in Iraq, because...

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Jeebus (Blue Lyon)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:36 GMT

... tech-related questions, including whether he’d support rewriting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as part of our 2008 Technology Voters’ guide. Biden would not answer (we did hear back from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Ron Paul). In our 2006 Technology Voters’ Guide , which ranked Senate votes from July 1998 through May 2005, Biden received a mere 37.5 percent score because...

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