L.A. TIMES: White House Wants Search Limits Overturned

[steve2470]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-secret-searches,1,1715893.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines&ctrack=2&cset=true

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore its ability to compel Internet service providers to turn over information about their customers or subscribers as part of its fight against terrorism.

The legal filing with the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York comes amid a debate in Congress over renewal of the Patriot Act and whether to expand the FBI's power to seek records without the approval of a judge or grand jury.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of New York last year blocked the government from conducting secret searches of communications records, saying the law that authorized them wrongly barred legal challenges and imposed a gag order on affected businesses.

The ruling came in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and an Internet access firm that received a national security letter from the FBI demanding records. The identity of the firm remains secret.




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[indepat]

1. We'll just have to trust the FBI not to invade our privacy except in cases

terrorist activity: we know they will do the right (correct) thing and that politics will never enter the equation.

[steve2470]

2. We'll trust them just like apathetic Germans trusted Hitler nt

[pfitz59]

3. tell 'em to F-off!

key word search: democrat, democratic, liberal, progressive. yep, i know where this is going.