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The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses
Throtex writes "Orin Kerr, Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University writes at The Volokh Conspiracy that the Department of Justice is having trouble finding abuses of the USA PATRIOT Act. This follows from the fact that what the media originally aired as abuses were merely allegations of abuse at the time. Could it be that there has just been a lot of fuss over nothing?"
Government investigates itself and doesn't find any problems. News at 11.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
First rule of being abused by the Patriot Act:
You don't talk about being abused by the Patriot Act.
In other news: Micorsoft announced difficulties finding evidence of a monopoly within the walls of Redmond.
/. is a bunch of nerds at a million typewriters. It's not a political conspiracy determined to undermine your beliefs.
After a serious review of my hard drive, I can report to the RIAA that I have NO illegally downloaded music on my hard drive either. Hey, if it works for the justice department....
The topic is about the PATRIOT act. Maybe we should talk about how conversation should have a topic, and that people must be on the same topic to have a conversation...
A modern day witchhunt.
Clinton '08!
Nearly all of the detainees are being held without charges and some have been imprisoned there for more than three years.
Or at least until Jack Nicholson orders the Code Red.
These assholes covered up the murder of a Federal inmate at the Oklahoma City Transit Center, among numerous other situations.
They must not have done a very good job of it, if YOU know about it.
PPOR: it's the Official Acronym of the Internet.
Here is something you have to eat.
Only 1% of it is poisonous.
It is 99% good! See, you should eat it!
What are you fussing about?
Oh, that that 1% may kill you? What kind
of a whiny left wing socialist are you?
Eat!
David
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If he was convicted of nearly 3000 1st degree muders in NY, then he would be looking at 7-10 years with time off for good behaviour.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
there may be a few hundred who are hell bent on inflicting as much violence as possible on innocent people.
I agree. And they work for the US government.
A latent existence
the wold's most dangerous and inarticulate "leader"?
Of course, his handlers won't let him vomit anything without
cue cards; a teleprompter, and President-Vice Cheney's arm.
Patriotically as always,
K. Trout, CEO
And in other news today, the Justice Department has reported that it is not abusing it's power. To quote the Fuhrer, uh, I mean, director: "A bunch of people called us to tell us we were abusing the system, but then we looked into it and those people are totally wrong. And even though a couple of those people were sort of right, they totally called the wrong number to complain, so they don't really count."
Kenneth Lay can't find violations at Enron
OJ is still looking for his wife's killer
Now, the Justice department can't find violations at Justice department
Someone call Nixon's speechwriter...