PATRIOT Renewal Falls Short on Privacy, Civil Liberties
So, when are these people ever going to learn that there is a BALANCE to be struck. Our "leaders" have already proven themselves dishonest and without ethics. So what do those we elect to represent us do? They give them MORE power, all in the name of a "War on Terrorism" that has already fallen on its face, given that so many of the obvious "holes" have been ignored, and because the attacks continue throughout the world. The FBI has been shown to have abused the powers it was given, already going beyond them, so now we continue to give them MORE power rather than reign them in. Gee, that makes sense... NOT.
PATRIOT Renewal Falls Short on Privacy, Civil Liberties:
House-Senate negotiators have agreed on a PATRIOT Act renewal bill that falls far short of balancing the legitimate demands of national security with the need to preserve the privacy and civil liberties of ordinary, law-abiding Americans. There was bipartisan support in Congress for fixing the PATRIOT Act, but at the last minute the reforms got watered down. While the new bill includes some additional oversight measures, Congress is going to have to return to these issues soon and develop some genuine limits on the PATRIOT Act and other surveillance powers, especially because changing technology is exposing more personal information to government access.