Ashcroft Defends the Patriot Act
Attorney General John Ashcroft was in Alaska Monday, addressing the state's terrorism task force. He called the civil liberties invasion by the Patriot Act "non-existent.
"But when the so-called invasion is one that's falsely reported and nonexistent, and they don't hear about the fact that it's falsely reported and nonexistent, it's not helpful."
....Provisions that allowed law-enforcement agents to monitor a person's reading habits or purchases, for example, were similar to the traditional subpoena powers used in murder or drug-trafficking investigations, he said.
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