EDITORIAL: Patriot Act renewal is unpatriotic

05/31/11 When are Americans going to insist that their government start following the Constitution? Last Friday, Congress passed an extension of the misnamed USA Patriot Act, which severely breaches Americans' Fourth Amendment "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and...

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Not exactly patriotic

05/31/11 We keep wondering when Americans are going to insist that their government again start following the Constitution. On May 27, Congress passed an extension to the badly misnamed USA Patriot Act, which severely breaches Americans' Fourth Amendment "right of the people to be secure in their...

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Obama's secret law in the Patriot Act

06/11/11 By Nat Hentoff When Congress rushed to pass the Patriot Act on Oct. 21, 2001, I reported in The Village Voice: "This will be one of our severest tests yet to rescue the Constitution from our

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