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If you voted for the USA Patriot Act, how do you justify that it allows
the following:
1. Indefinite detention of non-citizens who are not terrorists on minor
visa violations if they cannot be deported because they are stateless, their
country of origin refuses to accept them, or because they would face torture
in their country of origin.
2. Minimal judicial supervision of federal telephone and Internet surveillance
by law enforcement authorities.
3. Expansion of the ability of the government to conduct secret searches.
4. Gives the Attorney General and the Secretary of State the power to designate
domestic groups as terrorist organizations and deport any non-citizen who
belongs to them.
5. Grants the FBI broad access to sensitive business records about individuals
without having to show evidence of a crime.
6. Leads to large-scale investigations of American citizens for "intelligence"
purposes.
How was something as large as the USA Patriot Act put together so quickly?
Are there provisions in it that have been previously rejected and collecting
dust on shelves that were dusted off and inserted?
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