Meanwhile, back at the ranch, they say we got too many rights....
- From: Bob Brock <bbrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:04:19 -0400
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901434_pf.html
Gonzales said yesterday that the Senate bill's tighter provisions
would make it too difficult for investigators to conduct secret
searches or obtain "roving wiretaps" in terrorism investigations. He
also said the threshold for obtaining business records, including
those held by libraries, would be set too high by the Senate bill.
Parts of the Patriot Act have come under fire from advocacy groups,
lawmakers and hundreds of local governments as intrusions on civil
liberties. Gonzales and other Justice officials say such fears are
overblown and that no abuses have been documented.
A new poll to be released today by the University of Connecticut found
that a majority of Americans support the Patriot Act, but most are not
knowledgeable about the law's details when asked specific questions.
The poll also found that "the more the public knows about the Patriot
Act, the less they support it," according to a summary of the
findings. Less than 60 percent of those who know the intent of the law
support it, compared with 70 percent who do not know its intent, the
survey said.
The survey of 802 adults also found that only 14 percent of those
polled supported all the major provisions of the law when asked about
them in detail.
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