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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Re:meta-moderating

[rumblin'rabbit]

I would agree with you if I thought that moderators showed as much care as you do meta-moderating.

I think the benefit of the doubt should go to the poster over the moderator. People are too quick to assume that an opinion they disagree with must have a nefarious underlying motive. The proper way to answer an honest but misguided posting is by replying, not moderating.

In other words, any vaguelly reasonable posting should not be modded negatively.

Better ignore my sig when reading this.