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http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/5214079.h tm on Patriot II. I'm beginning to view Ashcroft as evil incarnate... Patriot II: The Sequel Why It's Even Scarier than the First Patriot Act By ANITA RAMASASTRY - ---- Monday, Feb. 17, 2003 Soon after the terrorist acts of September 11, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, which conferred broad new powers upon the federal government. Now John Ashcroft and his scribes at the Justice Department have been working secretly to create new, 120-page draft legislation that, if enacted, would expand greatly upon these already sweeping powers. This daring sequel to the USA Patriot Act is known internally as the Domestic Security Enhancement Act. It is also nicknamed Patriot II (the name by which I'll refer to it here), or Son of Patriot. On February 7 of this year, a January 9 draft of Patriot II was revealed to the public - - but not by the government. It was made public only through a leak. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20030217.html P.S. For a further list of links, see: http://foi.missouri.edu/domsecenhanceact/ ------- End of Forwarded Message To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe man-bytes-dog" (the subject is ignored).
