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- Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
  Posted by Jon from Washington Post
  A federal judge today struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional, ordering the FBI to stop issuing "national security letters" that secretly demand customer information from Internet service providers and other businesses. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York ruled that the landmark anti-terrorism law violates the First Amendment and the Constitution's separation of powers provisions because it effectively prohibits recipients of the FBI letters (NSLs) from reve
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- Videotape Offers a Window Into a Terror Suspect’s Isolation
  Posted by chuckt from New York Times
  "Lawyers for Mr. Padilla, 36, suggest that he is unfit to stand trial. They argue that he has been so damaged by his interrogations and prolonged isolation that he suffers post-traumatic stress disorder and is unable to assist in his own defense."
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- American Travelers to Get Secret 'Risk Assessment' Scores
  Posted by chuckt from Electronic Frontier Foundation
  So what's your score? You don't get to know.
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- U.S. Settles Suit: $2 Million For Wrongful Arrest
  Posted by chuckt from Washington Post
  This is about the Oregon lawyer who was arrested after the Madrid bombings. He gets to continue his legal challenge of the Patriot Act.
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- UCLA Student Tasered for Not Showing ID in Library
  Posted by Jeff
  And, only because of the PATRIOT act is it deemed necessary, for unexplained reasons, for one to have an actual ID on them — when normally, in a case like Mostafa’s, the fact that he was recognized by peers surrounding him should have been enough.
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- ACLU gets OK to pursue Patriot Act suit
  Posted by Billbar from ContraCostaTimes
  A federal judge in Detroit rejected the government's request to dismiss an ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of the controversial USA Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism measure Congress enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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- Gagged librarians break silence on Patriot Act
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  "Our clients were gagged by the government at a time when Congress needed to hear their voices the most," said Ann Beeson, ACLU's lead attorney in the case. "This administration has repeatedly shown that it will hide behind the cloak of national security to silence its critics and cover up embarrassing facts. Every time the government invokes national security in defense of secrecy -- as they've done most recently with NSA wiretapping -- the American public should remember these four librarians."
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Jeff comments on:
Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional

Aren’t you supposed to be getting married?

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3:59 pm 9/06/07
Jon comments on:
Videotape Offers a Window Into a Terror Suspect’s Isolation

This is chilling.

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11:48 am 12/04/06
Jeff comments on:
U.S. Settles Suit: $2 Million For Wrongful Arrest

When will the follies of the Rove/Bush/GOP political machine be paid for in full? Why should taxpayers have to cover this – instead of Ashcroft and the GOP?

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2:14 pm 11/30/06

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