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Patriot Act Extended to March 10

By Last Night in Little Rock, Section War on Terror
Posted on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 07:25:11 AM EST
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by Last Night in Little Rock

Late Thursday night, the Senate concurred in a House bill to extend the Patriot Act until March 10. The previous extension was to have ended Friday.

This was a mere skirmish and retreat in the war on civil liberies, which is continued to be waged with greater vigor than the War in Iraq.

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    Patriot Act Extended to March 10 | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Patriot Act Extended to March 10 (none / 0) (#1)
    by Repack Rider on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 07:59:37 AM EST
    I wonder whether any of our representatives have availed themselves of this opportunity to actually read the act before the next vote.

    Re: Patriot Act Extended to March 10 (none / 0) (#2)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:24:05 AM EST
    Ha! The NSA wiretaps are a huge obstacle for the neocons to continue ramming the "Patriot" act up our collective arses. Nice work again, Monkey Boy. Dowd's column this morning was right on.

    Re: Patriot Act Extended to March 10 (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:30:21 AM EST
    Honest question. What provisions, if any, of the patriot act are not already available to law enforcement to investigate criminal activities such as Medicaid fraud or to investigate mobsters? I truly am curious about this so don't attack me for the question, please just answer it. If there are none, do you have a problem with the use of these powers in general, such as to investigate Medicaid fraud? If that is the case then I can understand your argument. However, if it isn't and the powers are ok to investigate Medicaid Fraud why not Terrorism?

    Re: Patriot Act Extended to March 10 (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:32:50 AM EST
    We know one thing: Ken Salazar thinks the Patriot Act is just dandy.

    Re: Patriot Act Extended to March 10 (none / 0) (#5)
    by aw on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 01:02:46 PM EST
    BSRB: It sounds like Medicaid fraud is a big thing to you. You have a problem with hospitals, doctors, and pharmacists ripping off the taxpayers? So do I. We have something in common. These crimes were solvable before the Patriot Act, so that should answer your question, I think.

    Re: Patriot Act Extended to March 10 (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 01:53:29 PM EST
    aw, Yes these crimes were solvable before the patriot act. This is because the statutes in the patriot act were on in place to investigate these crimes before the patriot act existed, before 911. All that the patriot act did was to extend the tools available to investigate Medicaid fraud or Gangsters to terrorists. I have not been able to find an aspect of the patriot act that didn't exist before its passage, only it was limited in scope as to what type of criminal investigations it could be used in. That is why I asked for help because I could be wrong. The second portion of my post asked if law enforcement was able to use tools in the Patriot act in 1999 to investigate Medicaid fraud, why can't they use the same tools today to catch terrorists? These tools were legal before 911 just not to investigate terrorists. For example, the government could demand that a business turn over all its records relating to an individual if that person was suspected of committing Medicaid fraud in 1999, but they couldn't get information on a suspected terrorist in the same manor. I am asking do you see a problem with this?

    Patriot Act Extended to March 10 | 6 comments (6 topical)