latimes.com — Angry lawmakers on Friday threatened to amend the USA Patriot Act and limit the FBI's powers in the wake of a disclosure that agents had improperly obtained confidential records of people in the United States.
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schizzlefuzzMar 11, 2007
It's about damned time. And while they are at it, just get rid of the whole thing.
Closed AccountMar 11, 2007
Any law on the books can, and will, be abused by the government. Rewriting our laws to accomodate abusers is stupid. Better fire FBI bastards who abuse the law.
charronMar 11, 2007
Doubt anything's gonna happen. Isn't that why things "happen" on Fridays? So that everyone forgets about it by Monday?
ayalrosenthalMar 11, 2007
So will people who had their civil rights violated by the FBI be notified of such or will this information simply be kept on the side to be used by the agency later?
skulljarMar 11, 2007
"People so often abuse excessive and overreaching powers."You say "so often." It's more, actually. It is exactly: every single instance in every single history of every single government ever. In addition every government seeks to expand it's own powers. That's simply human nature for you.
Closed AccountMar 12, 2007
Here's how I feel about it...<a class="user" href="http://jeremiasx.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/my-first-vlog/">http://jeremiasx.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/my-first-vlog/</a>
xillMar 12, 2007
The patriot act is a contemporary shadow of the dark middle ages, a step back to torture, justified by a coup d'etat made by traitors our own governement in order to transfer power to the world banks and corporations.
trilithMay 15, 2007
and what about privacy?