BushReich Assault on Our Privacy and Civil Liberties

See Kim Zetter's article in "Wired" today
She also covered E-Voting

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In his state-of-the-union speech last year, Bush urged Congress to renew certain provisions of the Patriot Act that are set to expire at the end of this year.

Barr and other civil liberties advocates expect that the administration, believing it has a mandate to gain the powers it wants, will also try to push through new Patriot Act II provisions, which the administration partly abandoned when their existence came to light and caused an uproar in 2003. Barr expects the administration will pass provisions piecemeal in other legislation to avoid controversy, as it did last year with the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003, or HR3179'
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http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66242,00.html