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Here’s the Wall Street Journal on yesterday’s overwhelming bipartisan vote to protect from lawsuits telecommunications companies that, in good faith, cooperated with the government to help apprehend terrorists:
Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington. So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the [...]

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I am not conversant with the details of the Patriot Act, nor am I a Constitutional lawyer. I simply find it interesting that, more often than not, when a Federal District Court judge rules something about the Patriot Act unlawful, that judge is a Clinton appointee. The most recent case in point is a decision [...]

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Today a Judge ruled that key parts of the Patriot Act needed more judicial supervision and that Congress had over stretched its reach. I feel like I am having dejavu. We tied the hands of the FBI once, that was during the Clinton administration and now its happening again through some half witted [...]

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Democrats never seem to get it. What if the terrorist was an American, as is the case with John Walker Lindh? Are the Democrats suggesting that because one is born in the United States, one will not be a terrorist? We know that this is not always the case and if we look to Britain, many terrorists have been British born. They are people born in a free nation but raised by whack jobs.

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