Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — For months, President Bush's advisers have assured a skittish public that law-abiding Americans have no reason to fear the long reach of the antiterrorism law known as the Patriot Act because its most intrusive measures would require a judge's sign-off.

But in a plan announced this week to expand counterterrorism powers, President Bush adopted a very different tack. In a three-point presidential plan that critics are already dubbing Patriot Act II, Mr. Bush is seeking broad new authority to allow federal agents — without the approval of a judge or even a federal prosecutor — to demand private records and compel testimony.



http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/national/14PATR.html?ex=1064116800&en=e16be52435464c2a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE


I know it comes as no great shock that the mad chimp is pulling this unconstitutional hogwash, but it's really annoying that sheeple continue to believe that he is something other than a lying sleaze.