{"id":2343,"date":"2003-04-16T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/shaky-future-for-patriot-act\/"},"modified":"2003-04-16T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2003-04-16T19:37:24","slug":"shaky-future-for-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/16\/shaky-future-for-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaky Future for Patriot Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tNewsday<\/a> reports that the House Judiciary Committee chair isn’t sold on Patriot II:<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s plans to expand a post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism law face resistance from a powerful House Republican who says he’s not even sure he wants the government to keep its new powers. <\/p>\n

James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, complains that the Justice Department isn’t sharing enough information for lawmakers to make a judgment on how well or poorly the USA Patriot Act is working. <\/p>\n

“I can’t answer that because the Justice Department has classified as top-secret most of what it’s doing under the Patriot Act,” Sensenbrenner said when asked about the future of the anti-terrorism law in a recent interview. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Without Sensenbrenner’s support, the bill is a non-starter.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsday reports that the House Judiciary Committee chair isn’t sold on Patriot II: WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s plans to expand a post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism law face resistance from a powerful House Republican who says he’s not even sure he wants the government to keep its new powers. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the House Judiciary … Continue reading “Shaky Future for Patriot Act”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-BN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}