that's not a decision that has been conveyed to us with any finality by the chairman ... I'm confident there will be additional very important witnesses.
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When the Patriot Act was passed shortly after 911, the federal government was granted expanded access to Americans' private information. However, federal law still clearly states that intelligence agents must have a court order to conduct electronic surveillance of Americans on these shores. Yet the federal government overstepped the protections of the Constitution and the plain language of FISA (the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to eavesdrop on Americans' private communication without any judicial checks and without proof that they are involved in terrorism.Bob Barr
will be used by our staff, our lawyers and our investigators to buttress the case that the president in fact did perjure himself on many occasions.
Bob Barr
There are a handful of provisions in the USA Patriot Act that are very constitutionally problematic, particularly the way some of them have been used. What I and a number of others from the right, the left and the center of the ideological spectrum -- this is an issue that brings together the ACLU, the American Conservative Union and the Eagle Forum -- are urging is not a wholesale discarding of the USA Patriot Act. We are urging that we re-establish the important link between the power of the government to gather personal, private information and a reasonable suspicion that the person on whom they are seeking the information has actually done something wrong.
Bob Barr
We've accomplished, as a team, more than many other members -- probably most other members of the Congress and Senate -- accomplish in an entire lifetime, and I appreciate that very much,
Bob Barr
There clearly back in 2001 was an effort to use to the PATRIOT Act for political power. Anyone who questioned any of the provisions was not supporting the war on terror. People have heard that now for four years, and my sense is most of them are seeing through that sort of rhetoric now.
Bob Barr
For all his self-serving lie-detector tests, now and whatever else his lawyer spins in his favor, it will not erase the fact he misled and misled badly the lawful conduct of a police investigation.
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