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Senate Passes Anti-Terrorism Bill
Posted by Ernest Miller on Friday, October 12 @ 18:43:46 EDT Civil Liberties
The Washington Post reports that the Senate has passed the anti-terrorism bill, rejecting many of the compromise amendments favored by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis) (Senate Passes Bill Boosting Electronic Surveillance). Apparently, the administration is very concerned with the 2-year sunset provision in the House - why is unclear, since if the new measures are necessary, effective and won't be abused, the provisions should easily be renewed. The administration is considering a compromise 5-year sunset provision. The Register praises Sen. Feingold in an article that also notes that the administration may have backed off on its restrictions on classified briefings in order to get the anti-terrorism bill passed (Lone Senator thwarts Dubya's anti-terror excesses).
UPDATE 1141 EDT 11 OCT 2001
WIRED's Declan McCullagh decries the passage of the bill (Terror Bill Clears Senate). Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said "current law perversely gives the terrorist privacy rights.... We should not tie the hands of our law enforcement and help hackers and cyber-terrorists to get away." The problem of course is that the Constitution perversely gives terrorists privacy rights ... if we could just distinguish between terrorists and other people, we could take away the rights of terrorists, but let law-abiding people keep their rights.
 
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