Worsening the Patriot Act - a frightening article, a must read

[steve2470]

http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1117099951303600.xml&coll=2

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Secrecy is the enemy of liberty. Why, then, is the Senate Select Committee on Intelli gence meeting in secret today to finish the details of its Patriot Act rewrite?

Officially, it is to hear classified information about how the Patriot Act has been used. But such a session - and the entire direction of the Intelligence Committee's efforts to expand unchecked the secret activities of federal investigators - should raise serious concerns among those who believe such broadened powers demand strict judicial oversight.

The committee, at the behest of the White House, not only seeks to make permanent the Patriot Act's most onerous features, but plans as well to give federal authorities yet more unquestioned access to the private medical, financial and transactional records of Americans without so much as a by-your-leave from any court.

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[babylonsister]

1. Hey, Steve. Who's on the

Senate Select Committee (on intelligence?)? Do you know, or how can we find out? I googled it and got old articles, which is puzzling and suspect.

[steve2470]

2. hang on for a minute.....nt

[steve2470]

3. here ya go, Ms. Babylonsister

http://intelligence.senate.gov/members.htm


MEMBERSHIP


Pat Roberts, Kansas
Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV
West Virginia, Vice Chairman
Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
Carl Levin, Michigan
Mike Dewine, Ohio
Dianne Feinstein, California
Christopher S. Bond, Missouri
Ron Wyden, Oregon
Trent Lott, Mississippi
Evan Bayh, Indiana
Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
Jon S. Corzine, New Jersey
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia

Ex Officio Members
Bill Frist, Tennessee
Harry Reid, Nevada
John Warner, Virginia

edited for clarity, had to delete the words democrats and republicans

[babylonsister]

4. Now I'm really puzzled; I hope our Dem

contingent is responding appropriately. :scared: If we don't really know what they're talking about, how can we gage it?
I asked originally because of the Bolton success today-how could they be anywhere else, but I realize these people float around.
It's been an interesting week!

[steve2470]

6. Good question. We're supposed to trust them to handle

sensitive information appropriately, but I don't. Get new people on the committee maybe ???

[slaveplanet]

5. Roberts

The creature from Kansas is driving much of the more onerous aspects. Like the granting full gestapo power to the FBI , they will be able to make their own warrants and do their secret roundups without judiciary oversite.

Political adversaries could be rounded up this way, with the public none the wiser.

Frightening indeed and quite treasonous.

[thecai]

7. REPEAL The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Acts

I can't say it enough. It is a modified version of Hitler's Enabling Act, under the guise of "security" and "protection from terrorists", when it turned out Hitler was the worst terrorist of them all.
Recommending this thread.

[steve2470]

8. thanks ! nt

[steve2470]

10. kick nt

[steve2470]

9. kick nt