Records-search plan alarms civil-liberties groups

[dogday]

This is what we need to be focusing on, these private sessions behind closed doors concern everyone on this board

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. civil-liberties groups said on Monday they were alarmed at new provisions to be considered in Congress this week to strengthen the government's ability to seize private records without judicial review.

Officials from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Open Society Institute and the Center for Democracy and Technology said in a telephone conference call the new provisions to the USA Patriot Act would allow the FBI to secretly demand medical, tax, gun-purchase, travel and other records without approval from a judge.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050523/ts_nm/congress_patriot_dc

[dogday]

1. This needs to be addressed, this is the issue at hand right now..

"This bill includes ideas long sought, and rejected ... The idea that a FBI official could issue a piece of paper saying, 'Give me all your records' with no judicial approval, no prosecutorial review, no checks and balances," he said.

Under this provision, the FBI would be able to issue administrative subpoenas to seize such records without review by a judge or grand jury, as long as they said they were pursuing either a foreign-intelligence or terrorism investigation.

[thecai]

2. REPEAL The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Acts

they are a complete farce, nearly identical to Hitler's Enabling Act.
IMPEACH Bush NOW
Defend The Constitution

The FBI needs to investigate and spy on The FBI, (resume those corruption investigations that were called off after 9/11).