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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?"

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  1. Everything is ok! Shhh, now go back to sleep... by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Government investigates itself and doesn't find any problems. News at 11.

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  2. Sorta like Fight Club by X86Daddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    First rule of being abused by the Patriot Act:

    You don't talk about being abused by the Patriot Act.

  3. Re:Why Am I Not Surprised? by Kick+the+Donkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news: Micorsoft announced difficulties finding evidence of a monopoly within the walls of Redmond.

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  4. Re: One place to look by bluprint · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  5. Re:Why Am I Not Surprised? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:ACLU Approves Of Overwhelming Majority of Patri by Duhavid · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. Re:Defensible by lga · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  8. You have to love it by Evets · · Score: 3, Funny

    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."