Bush Sees Patriot Act Renewal As Key Goal

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft is leaving but the top issues for the Justice Department are the same heading into President Bush's second term: persuading Congress to renew key parts of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act and continuing fundamental reforms at the FBI.

Nominated to replace Ashcroft is Alberto Gonzales, the White House general counsel who would become the first Hispanic to lead Justice. If confirmed as expected by the Senate, Gonzales will inherit a job that begins each day with a detailed briefing of the terrorist threats facing the United States.

Prosecutors and FBI agents say nothing is more central to confronting that threat than the Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly by Congress shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It gave the government expanded powers of surveillance and prosecution against would-be terrorists, their helpers and their financiers.

More than a dozen provisions of the law are set to expire by late October 2005 unless renewed by Congress. These include authority for judges to issue search warrants that apply nationwide, authority for FBI and criminal investigators to share information about terrorism cases and the FBI's power to obtain records in terrorism-related cases from businesses and other entities, including libraries.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-second-term-law-enforcement,0,3723448.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

I am sick of hearing about everything at the top of the agenda! Social Security, taxes, the patriot act, immigration,...

Boy, this congress is going to have their work cut out for them. Isn't this the most vacationing congress in history? These next 18 months are going to be hell.

Go on, Congress. Rubberstamp King George's Tyranny Act.

Asshat has so much left to do in systematically destroying the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's real "hard work" tearing down 228 years of our history. Can't be done in four years. :puke:


Professor 2

NONE.

for two.

Fuck them till they bleed.

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- All inmates currently on death row were to be publicly executed on the second day of the new government.

- "The penalty for murder is death, as is the penalty for attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, advocacy of murder and all other capital crimes," such as homosexual behavior.

- Individuals convicted of performing an abortion would be executed. Painless executions would be abolished. The victim's families would have the right to kill the convicted murder, by stabbing, shooting, strangulation, etc.

- Persons convicted of advocating access to abortion would be executed.

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- Homosexual establishments (e.g. bars, publishing facilities, support groups, etc.) are closed and padlocked

- "Anyone performing homosexual behavior, upon conviction, will be executed."

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