The Bush Administration is proposing sweeping enhancements to the Patriot Act. They are seeking greater powers so they can

increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information.

The Center for Public Integrity has obtained a draft of the proposed changes, and has published it here.

The Justice Department released a statement saying that they had not sent anything to Aschroft or the White House. But a "control sheet" of the Office of Legislative Affairs shows that a copy of the proposed bill was sent to Cheney and House Speaker Hastert.

According to terrorism law expert and Georgetown Law Professor David Cole, author of Terrorism and the Constitution,

This proposed law, he added, “would radically expand law enforcement and intelligence gathering authorities, reduce or eliminate judicial oversight over surveillance, authorize secret arrests, create a DNA database based on unchecked executive ‘suspicion,’ create new death penalties, and even seek to take American citizenship away from persons who belong to or support disfavored political groups.” Cole found it disturbing that there have been no consultations with Congress on the draft legislation. “It raises a lot of serious concerns and is troubling as a generic matter that they have gotten this far along and tell people that there is nothing in the works. What that suggests is that they’re waiting for a propitious time to introduce it, which might well be when a war is begun. At that time there would be less opportunity for discussion and they’ll have a much stronger hand in saying that they need these right away.”

Again, you can read the Government's legislative "wish list" here, but be patient, it's getting a lot of hits and is slow in loading.