The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday.
Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law’s authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called “lone wolf” terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps.
Change.
I feel in good hands with President Obama. While I always question government intrusion, it’s all about trust and I trust this administration in doing the right thing.
Therefore, if he decides this will keep us safe, then I support his decision.
Since the Cheney administration lied about the war and sucked up to the American Taliban, they are untrustworthy. Very simple.
#6 I don’t know, kissing some third world country dictator’s ass?
#8 Inacreditavel. Eu acho que voce adora a lei patriota. Siga sua luta pela defensa do indefensivel.
#9 So what, they going to ask you forgiveness when they throw you in jail? That’s your change?
#12 No, they are still backing Bush policies and saying their good now ’cause their idol is behind them.
#15 for the most asinine post so far.
#21 The depth of your devotion…every time Obama acts…you must die a little…
Not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties, but can we at least get a nickel?
PRE-Election Obama: Glib promises of “change” to pander to left wing of his party
POST-Election Obama: Dealing with “Reality”
In the old days, Edtard would have 20 posts up about how Bushitler was going to send us to concentration camps. (How’d that work out, Eddie?) Now, Edtard has his man in office and even though his candidate continues the Bushitler policies, everything’s groovy.
Go figure.
yeah i read this article. yet everyone is up in arms over medical
This act allows wiretapping of all phone-calls in the US. I get the feeling that some of the posters here imagine just a few hundred agents possibly listening into conversations. Unfortunately this is not how things work these days.
It requires virtually no processing power to record thousands of concurrent calls from a switch – wiretaps at each switching center are mandated by telecommunications law.
Once recorded the calls are then converted to text – dozens of calls per cpu can be handled in large farms of servers. Filtering can then applied to the resulting text.
It is not a particularly expensive problem, either in terms of bandwidth or processing power:
Each uncompressed phonecall is 64kbps.
Looking at top500.org all top 10 clusters currently have >30000 cpu cores each.
This type of technology is becoming common for monitoring in call-centers and the accuracy/speed of the commercially available software is very good.
#2, sherman
Wasn’t this one of many Bush policies the new guy promised to get rid of? Either B. Hussein Obama is a liar, or he’s trying to protect the public just like Bush was trying to do.
I don’t know. Was it? Maybe you could copy us on a piece of last years campaign where Obama promised to do away with the Patriot Act.
OR
You could read the article.
#21 Useless post. We know you love your boss, specially when he gives you 20 lashes.
#29 Gee, did I miss all those posts were you moaned and groaned about that POS law? Let’s see… no, I didn’t.
Thanks for providing another example of your “it’s only good if my party does it” mantra.
# 29 Mr. Fusion
Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 179: “As president, Barack Obama would revisit the PATRIOT Act to ensure that there is real and robust oversight of tools like National Security Letters, sneak-and-peek searches, and the use of the material witness provision.”
If ‘revisit’ means keeping everything the same but present it with slicker autocue delivery than Bush would have done, this will be another election promise kept.
Insufficient analysis. The article talks about three provisions of the law they want to renew. How many are there that they _don’t_ want to renew? Three? Thirty? Three hundred?
They have to leave the Patriot Act in place so that when they lose the White House in 2012 they can then again use it to attack the evil, constitution-shredding Republicans.
Americans will be too stupid to remember that it survived the Obama years…the media will just omit that fact or come up with a thousand weak justifications for Obama not doing away with it. Likely they will claim they couldn’t have voted it away because of the Republicans…even though Repubs are in the minority.
I assume all the people taking to the streets saying Bush was destroying our civil rights (and he did) will be out again in the streets saying Obama is destroying our civil rights?
Presumably they’ll be joining all the anti-war protesters who are protesting the adding of troops to Afghanistan, and the continued occupation of Iraq?
Or all the people protesting the continued policy of rendition? Or the continued policy of imprisoning people who aren’t charged with a crime based on the administrations assertion that they may someday do so?
Just how many Bushisms does Obama have to do before we get that there isn’t a dimes worth of difference?
Only the ignorant, those who believe that we still have a multi-party system that provides a significant difference in policy depending upon who one votes for, would expect one plutocracy vetted, lobbyist cash inspired politicians to be significantly different from another.
#30, dro,
Still as full of crap as usual.
#31, ford
If ‘revisit’ means keeping everything the same but present it with slicker autocue delivery than Bush would have done, this will be another election promise kept.
Can you point to anything where Obama has asked that the wording be kept EXACTLY the same?
Oh, in case you were unaware, those National Security Letters? They were ruled unconstitutional. See Doe v Ashcroft.
why is it the right wing nuts like to blame Obama for what their hero Bush did? Is it just plain stupidity or gross ignorance.
#34, Number 6,
Maybe you can point to something demonstrating Obama continuing Bushes policy on rendition (hint, he isn’t) or imprisoning people without charge.
Bold lies are not only accepted by the right wing nuts, they have become a way of life.
As for the terrorists being held in Guantanamo, it is now extremely difficult to charge them with anything as the evidence has been tainted by torture. They can’t be released as no country will take them.
#34 You don’t strike me as being that naive. Just look at conFusion here, everything to defend their beloved leader. They won’t protest it now, because it is them doing it.
#36 I know, no way you making better post. Same “It’s good because we do it” crap. It’s old and stale already.
No Backone Obama… They have Gotten to him… the NSA/FBI/CIA or others… they fed him scare mongering tactiics and now we have another Winner!!!!!!!
The Constitution will soon be used to light the Whitehouse Fireplace!!!!!
Another Dissapointment……… what next?