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There are a handful of provisions in the USA Patriot Act that are very constitutionally problematic, particularly the way some of them have been used. What I and a number of others from the right, the left and the center of the ideological spectrum -- this is an issue that brings together the ACLU, the American Conservative Union and the Eagle Forum -- are urging is not a wholesale discarding of the USA Patriot Act. We are urging that we re-establish the important link between the power of the government to gather personal, private information and a reasonable suspicion that the person on whom they are seeking the information has actually done something wrong.

As Congress comes back to work out the differences in the House and Senate bills to reauthorize the Patriot Act, a commitment to freedom must prevail. The more we learn about the Patriot Act, the clearer it is that too much power was granted to the government, with too few safeguards against abuse. While neither reauthorization bill is perfect, we call on Congress to use the Senate bill as its guide as it reconsiders the Patriot Act.

Caroline Fredrickson

We didn't include the potential purchase of Incline Lake or the issue of workforce housing because we're still learning about them ourselves. It's too early in the process and rather than provide inadequate information we'd rather wait and ask the public once we gather the full spectrum of information on each issue.

I went to a presentation by the [American Civil Liberties Union] about the Patriot Act really wanting to hear a clear argument against the Patriot Act, but the woman who introduced the speaker was a complete leftist who said we got hit on September 11 and then we got hit again by John Ashcroft, ... That kind of hyperbole and rhetoric just doesn't make sense.

If you talk about private things routinely. If you deal with private data in public places routinely, sooner or later it's going to get seen by the wrong person. It can be horrendously dangerous. The risk might seem small but the type of circles that business people travel in means that the likelihood of the wrong person seeing that information or hearing that information is much greater than you'd think. Just because we're in an airport doesn't mean we're shrouded in a cloak of anonymity.

We're always concerned when the government is maintaining databases of private information and personal information that's really none of the government's business. When a private entity does it, it's a different matter, but it always raises concerns about our privacy because today they may not be sharing it, tomorrow they may be sharing it with other businesses, with people who may be engaged in using it for illicit purposes.

Donna Lieberman

We've seen everything but the kitchen sink being thrown at the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act remains a top priority to get enacted. To the extent people don't focus on that or move away from it or try and mix the two (issues), that's not helpful to moving the Patriot Act forward.

The volume of information in this case, the time necessary for information to be gathered and transmitted to us from a number of state agencies and the need to gather additional information from individuals and organizations outside of state government have all contributed to our request for this 14-day extension.

Christine Ferguson

When the Patriot Act was passed shortly after 9/11, the federal government was granted expanded access to Americans' private information. However, federal law still clearly states that intelligence agents must have a court order to conduct electronic surveillance of Americans on these shores. Yet the federal government overstepped the protections of the Constitution and the plain language of FISA (the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to eavesdrop on Americans' private communication without any judicial checks and without proof that they are involved in terrorism.

Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government, ... Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information.

Chris Hoofnagle

Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government. Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information.

Chris Hoofnagle

I cannot support the Patriot Act conference report because it does not secure the right balance between our national security and civil liberties. As we protect and defend the American people, we must remain vigilant in protecting law-abiding American citizens from unaccountable governmental intrusion over their personal records. ... It would still permit personal records to be seized and retained indefinitely without any obligation on the part of the government to demonstrate a connection to terrorism.

The resolution stipulates that the Patriot Act may do something (wrong), but it in no way supports that with any tangible evidence. If there are tangible problems with the Patriot Act, address those.

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All I had to do was simply put in my license plate information, suddenly, after doing that, I got all my personal, private information right there on the Web site. Name, address -- all that information.

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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "There are a handful of provisions in the USA Patriot Act that are very constitutionally problematic, particularly the way some of them have been used. What I and a number of others from the right, the left and the center of the ideological spectrum -- this is an issue that brings together the ACLU, the American Conservative Union and the Eagle Forum -- are urging is not a wholesale discarding of the USA Patriot Act. We are urging that we re-establish the important link between the power of the government to gather personal, private information and a reasonable suspicion that the person on whom they are seeking the information has actually done something wrong.".