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WASHINGTON -- The government's 11th-hour decision to dump the ridiculous case of accused "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla on the criminal court to which it should have been referred nearly four years ago is Exhibit A against the Patriot Act as currently written.
The Padilla case is justification for the need for supervision, oversight and judicial examination of how the government uses extraordinary powers in extraordinary times. Precisely because terrorism is an elusive and therefore especially dangerous enemy, it is doubly important that the government behave responsibly and that its actions receive scrutiny.See the full content of this document
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Padilla Exposes Patriot Act Flaws
Before the rudderless, dysfunctional Congress limped out of town last week, this was the principle behind what would have been a filibuster against an extension of the Patriot Act's major provisions. From the left a...
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