Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, Signed into law today by Gee-Dubya

[Liquid Blue]

The raw details of the Act:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297352/posts

ACLU letter to Congress about this act:

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17154&c=206

First, the bill still includes an expansion of federal wiretapping power that would eliminate (for non-citizens) the fundamental requirement for foreign intelligence wiretapping - that the target be connected to a foreign power. This expansion flies in the face of the 9-11 Commission’s own report, which found a misunderstanding of existing surveillance law, not a lack of power, was at the heart of pre-9/11 missed opportunities.

Second, the bill also includes automatic pretrial detention for terrorism suspects, even when the government cannot show, as current law requires, that a suspect is a danger or a flight risk. The Justice Department abused its detention powers after 9-11 and has a record of making accusations of involvement in terrorism in pretrial hearings without evidence to support those accusations.

Finally, the bill also includes an amendment to the "material support" statute that would further criminalize association with groups the government labels as foreign terrorist organizations. For the first time, mere membership in such an organization is made a federal crime. While the bill also includes an explicit requirement that a defendant must have some knowledge of an organization’s status as a designated foreign terrorist organization or involvement in terrorist activities, this intent requirement does not cure the constitutional flaws of the statute. It is still a crime to provide otherwise lawful humanitarian assistance to a designated organization and "terrorism" is still defined far too broadly.

Conservative view on it:

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/december/1209_intel_reform.shtml

BUSH 4 PREZ

[Reclusion]

Damn, I love tax returns.

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i haven't gotten my w-2 yet, what I am gonna do!!!!

[Liquid Blue]

NAACP? Sounds like an acronym for terror. Lock 'em up, lock 'em up!

[Fit of Rage]

Second, the bill also includes automatic pretrial detention for terrorism suspects, even when the government cannot show, as current law requires, that a suspect is a danger or a flight risk. The Justice Department abused its detention powers after 9-11 and has a record of making accusations of involvement in terrorism in pretrial hearings without evidence to support those accusations.

I have two words for the ACLU:

Habeus motherfucking corpus

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i'm pretty sure that's three words

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aclu is a politcal machine, and i value their opinion about as high as i value most of your opinions

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So you choose to disregard the issue entirely, because the ACLU are just one of the organizations that have a problem with it? How very Alabama of you.

[Fit of Rage]

i'm pretty sure that's three words

I'm pretty sure that you're a tool.

[Jerome Scuggs]

I have two words for the ACLU:

Habeus motherfucking corpus

i have two words for fit of rage,




wait no i don't

lmao

[pv=nrt]

So you choose to disregard the issue entirely, because the ACLU are just one of the organizations that have a problem with it? How very Alabama of you.

yes, and it's texas you numbskull.

oh a whole, I will almost always take the opposite side of the issue the aclu takes. If for nothing else than to piss off people like you.

[Subjugation]

I guess you missed the joke. But since you have admitted your propensity to troll, I guess it's irrelevant anyway.

[SaucyKing]

i have two words for fit of rage,




wait no i don't

lmao

That;s the first post you've made that's made me laugh.

Good job!