Ethics

Roll Back the Patriot Act

By Ed Brayton

My friends at Downsize DC are working on a campaign to tell Congress to roll back some of the constitutionally dubious provisions of the Patriot Act. Sen. Russ Feingold has submitted a bill called the Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts (JUSTICE) Act that would repeal the worst provisions of both the Patriot Act and the FISA reauthorization bill from last year. Feingold explains what his bill would do:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).