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December 16, 2005
PATRIOT Axed: Genuflection & Rejection On Senate Floor
By 52-74 the Senate rejects extension of the PATRIOT Act, once so lovingly instated in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Key information? "Feingold, Craig and other critics said that wasn't enough, and have called for the law to be extended in its present form so they can continue to try and add more civil liberties safeguards. But Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert have said they won't accept a short-term extension of the law."
Choose, armchair Congressmen, one of two absolutisms: eternal death for the Act or eternal life. Which is the condemnation? Why not short-term extensions, reviewed annually or even semiannually? The questions, and reason, are left dangling in the breeze.
Posted by James G. Poulos at December 16, 2005 04:10 PM
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