This article that came on the heels of the first Patriot Act being passed, was a leaked "draft" of "Patriot Act II" reported by CPI, and gave the vision of what these guys wanted to do down the road, which now seems more like a realistic assessment of what was really on their list of things they were doing then, rather than a pie in the sky scarey wish list.
And it is interesting to note that the two other people besides Ashcroft privy to this report here were Dennis Hastert and Dick Cheney. And Hastert just announced his resignation the other day... Of course as Speaker of the House, perhaps he was the "proper" person rather than Delay, but HMMM!!!...
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=94Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act
Center Publishes Secret Draft of 'Patriot II' Legislation
By Charles Lewis and Adam Mayle
WASHINGTON, February 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 and is making it available in full text (12 MB). 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.
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An Office of Legislative Affairs "control sheet" Adobe Acrobat PDF that was obtained by the PBS program "Now With Bill Moyers" seems to indicate that a copy of the bill was sent to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and Vice President Richard Cheney on Jan. 10, 2003. "Attached for your review and comment is a draft legislative proposal entitled the 'Domestice Security Enhancement Act of 2003,'" the memo, sent from "OLP" or Office of Legal Policy, says.