OBAMA BACKS EXTENDING PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS

You want change, hold out your cup. You want Hope, keep dreaming. Because you won't get any of that from this man.
Just like we didn't get any from Bush.

One big vicious circle.

Change they can all cash in on! That is a great line.

CHANGE???

boooo!

We love Mr. President........

Wow, different face, but same coin. I really hate our political system.

I hate to say I told you so...oh, wait, no I DON'T!
Because I did tell you so.

Obama is the EXACT same as Bush and will be just as bad, if not worse.

This is definitely troubling. The Patriot Act is the worse kind of reactionary policy cooked up by Bush's administration. While I want to believe that necessary steps will be taken, as the article mentions, to protect the privacy of citizens, I am not hopeful. This is definitely one particular point of Obama's administration that I am not in agreement with... at all.

OBUSHMA LIKE I SAID BEFORE! He represents the corporations not you!

why has no one asked what three provisions are being extended? and why isn't that information included in the news article? seems like without knowing what is being debated, no real debate is possible..

When the Patriot Act was Bush's baby, it was nothing but howls of outrage from the Left. Now that the baby was handed off to Obama and he's feeding the damned thing, what do you hear from the Left? Deafening silence. After all, Obama is The Man Who Can Do No Wrong. Obama is driving us off a cliff, and you're all asleep in the back seat!

Whether you voted Republican or Democrat, it's what you voted for.

Obama and Bush are like twins.

It was the compromise we all made, we all knew he was gonna be a big softie.

He voted for FISA didn't he?

They're all the same. Once shit like this gets put in place only the supreme court takes it down.

And since the court is dominated by conservatives, I'd say we're thoroughly boned.

As long as any provisions of the Patriot Act remain law the constitutional rights of every American remain at risk! Don't be lulled by the elite to believe that the aim of civil rights legislation,and the aim of the constitution,can be protected while providing safety from terrorists can be insured, because it can't! have you ever read the Patriot Act jh64487?

Donde esta tu cambio ahora, pendejos???

business record provision used 220 times during 04-07, roving wiretaps provision 22 times a year.
Those numbers don't really seem that high to me. Sure they shouldn't be doing it at all, but it seems like they're doing it when they deem necessary rather than arbitrarily. do you think there could be more that they're not telling us about, or other domestic spying operations that don't fall under whats being talked about in this article?

it's always the lesser of 2 evils. i was hoping for a Kucinich ticket. i WILL investigate this, mark my words, if this is agitprop i will blow it wide open. i will.

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on the other hand, this is ONE aspect of what he's doing whereas this (and the NCLB Act, also a failure) was ALL bush gave us.

perspective people. and finish reading more than the title.

"Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that the administration is willing to consider stronger civil rights protections in the new law "provided that they do not undermine the effectiveness of these important (provisions)."

Leahy responded with a statement saying it is important for the administration and Congress to "work together to ensure that we protect both our national security and our civil liberties."

The committee has scheduled a hearing next week on the Patriot Act.

From 2004 to 2007, the business records provision was used 220 times, officials said. Most often, the business records were requested in combination with requests for phone records.

Roving wiretaps
The lone wolf provision was created to conduct surveillance on suspects with no known link to foreign governments or terrorist groups. It has never been used, but the administration says it should still be available for future investigations.

The roving wiretaps provision was designed to allow investigators to quickly monitor the communications of a suspects who change their cell phone or communication device, without investigators having to go back to court for a new court authorization. That provision has been used an average of 22 times a year, officials said.

Michelle Richardson of the American Civil Liberties Union called the administration's position "a mixed bag," and said that the group hopes the next version of the Patriot Act will have important safeguards on other issues, particularly the collecting of international communications, and a specific bar on surveillance of activities protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment such as peaceful protests or religious assembly.

"We're heartened they're saying they're willing to work with Congress," Richardson said, adding that is "definitely a sea change from what we've seen in the past."

:O

This man is becoming more and more indistinguishable from the lying idiot he replaced :-(

Bush and Cheney got the Patriot act passed it violates at the least the 4th and 5th ammenments,and now Obama wants to keep it in effect.the new world order run wild.we let them strip us of our rights,we traded freedom for security,and now they will never allow it,and the other laws passed after it,to ever let these facist moves be stopped.liberal or conservertive its all the same its all a game and we are the losers." change we can believe in" right and pigs fly!

What The F@#!
where's the change
yes we can is starting
to look like why would we.

WHY??? The Patriot Act is the product of the Bush-Cheney scare tactics, enabling us to give our most of our freedoms away.

this will help with the war on drugs. maybe military in our streets will wake us up, or maybe it will be to late

I can't believe he is supporting the extension of this. Well, part of me does. I am saddened by this and disappointed. *sigh*

This is not protecting American people but instead perpetuating the stripping away of our rights and privacy. People will let this happen too, with little outcry.

There was no initial need for the Patriot Act in the first place, Bush was told about the 9/11 attacks and did not respond accordingly. The same intelligence gathering methods then can and are being used now. There is no need for an extension.

I wonder if Obama has even read the Patriot Act. No one else in Congress did before they voted for it. And yes, where are all those who decried it when Bush was in the White House? Where are the rousing speeches about civil liberties? Now it's OK to trample on them? And as it is, we aren't in Afghanistan about 9.11 or terrorism. It is about OIL, DRUGS, and corporate hegemony.

Right, left???

They both suck, so does the patriot act... So does this whole imperialistic fascist dictatorship, run by a select group of corporate entities whose sole purpose is to herd everyone around, control YOUR lives, and make profit as they kill YOU off....

I almost have no compassion for those stupid enough to be herded around, or controlled by more sticks and carrots.... You want change vote with your conscience (accept that your vote won't count), and fight with all your heart not to contribute to a failed oppressive system...

Boycott everything that isn't essential to survival, and quit being so damn "civilly" disobedient....

right here.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT? that's unacceptable.

i'd love to see some signs about THIS from the tea party fools, rather than about socialism, or kenyanism, or whatever.

You mean, the same Patriot Act that Bushed was chastised for, Obama is now extending provisions of? Where's the anti-constitutional, invasion of privacy cries from the left? Hypocrites...

So today its the peoples decision but yesterday bush was taking all of our rights away.

The people's decision..