ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 30, 2006 @12:44AM from the declare-victory-and-withdraw dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "The ACLU announced on Friday that they were dropping their case against the US Government over the highly contested section 215 of the Patriot Act. ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson stated: 'While the reauthorized Patriot Act is far from perfect, we succeeded in stemming the damage from some of the Bush administration's most reckless policies. The ACLU will continue to monitor how the government applies the broad Section 215 power and we will challenge unconstitutional demands on a case-by-case basis.'"

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Re:"Reauthorized" by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-30 00:53 · Score: 2, Funny

George Walker Bush doesn't "reauthor" or "rewrite." George Walker Bush reauthorizesmatizes! How dare you misunderestimate him?!
Re:"Reauthorized" by Peyna · 2006-10-30 01:31 · Score: 1, Funny

WTF is "reauthorized" meant to mean?

Authorized again.

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I know why they did it by UbuntuDupe · 2006-10-30 01:39 · Score: 2, Funny

They dropped this case because they felt they needed to divert more of their efforts to protecting the Second Amendment.

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