If you loved the original USA Patriot Act, you're going to LOVE the sequel.
(WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2003) -- The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001, which will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information.
The Center for Public Integrity has obtained a draft, dated January 9, 2003, of this previously undisclosed legislation.... The bill, drafted by the staff of Attorney General John Ashcroft and entitled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, has not been officially released by the Department of Justice, although rumors of its development have circulated around the Capitol for the last few months under the name of “the Patriot Act II” in legislative parlance.
To those of you who were dancing in the streets when Shrub "won" the 2000 Presidential election: was this REALLY what you wanted? I suppose if you were voting for the trampling of the Bill of Rights and the reduction of civil liberties, you're probably quite pleased with yourselves. You've gotten exactly what you deserve.
