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.
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LMAO
So how’s that Obama thing working out for you?
Well, I’ve only read the linked article but these provisions seem OK to me.
Lets keep our eyes on the ball shall we?
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.
I’m very disappointed and disagree with the President on this issue. Did you hear that conservatives? It IS possible to support a president and not agree 100% with them. Think for yourself and don’t be a lemming to party lines.
Where’s Jesse Jackson, when we need him?
Election promises should be a binding contract.
(In Portuguese so Guilherme may understand better)
Ei, Guilherme, por acaso o Dvorak encarregou voce de fazer o papel de troll oficial anti-Obama do Blog? Que tal um pouco de informacao de verdade ao inves de apenas inflamacao politica?
Sera que e’ porque os seus artigos de do Jornal Tecnologia — pelo que vi — sao meio mediocres?
Curiosidade: agora a lei do Brasil permite que pessoas sem formacao sejam jornalistas… voce se encaixa nesse grupo?
Troll blog post. RTFA. Read the very last line of the article. It is change. Because thoughtful consideration will be given to our individual rights as apposed to trampling them in fear with new laws to go after the bad guys, laws that could be easily corrupted against average Americans.
I hated the wholesale support of the Patriot Act merely on the phony idea that if you didn’t support it at the time, you must not be a Patriot, and you must hate your country. Total BS peer-pressure at the time. BUT, I fully support certain aspects of the act. We have for a long time behaved in this country as if everyone should love us because we have the best society in the world, and therefore we didn’t need security measures to track down the bad guys. So long as my rights are balanced with my security, and checks are put in place to protect me from a slippery slope towards a complete big-brother police state, I’m good with the Feds rooting out sleeper cells, foreign or domestic!
meet the new boss, same as the old boss…
“Change you can believe in.” BS. Change you can forget about.
I hope the pinheads that still support obama finally realize that he is nothing more than Clinton, and Bush’s I & II in blackface.
Patriot I & II should be deleted.
Everything we are shown is a Mirror Image of the true reality.
The entire war on terror is an illusion. It is actually a war on Liberty. (and the people who seek it)
Get a clue people.
-s
Since when has signals intelligence been an effective way of catching “lone wolf” terrorists?
Who exactly is he talking on the phone to, himself?
Well, I guess there was something to that “center-left” talk
Yeah its not so fun GOP, when a democrat is wielding the power of the Patriot Act, eh?
Gotta side with Bobbo on this one. (#4)
Based solely on the linked article, I’d say these three provisions are not particularly onerous and if it means getting rid of others, that are, then I say that’s change. Good change.
Did any of you actually expect any change?
#15 – Yeah its not so fun GOP, when a democrat is wielding the power of the Patriot Act, eh?
Didn’t bother me then, doesn’t bother me now. Of course, I don’t make calls to known terrorist locations. I just love that after the years of the media whining and moaning, when the Dems take control, nothing changes. And here I thought the Republicans were major hypocrites.
BO likes the control stuff, don’t he?
I love change… remember when the Patriot Act was a bad thing?
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.
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.
# 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?