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Friday, March 3, 2006 |
Jurist: "The US Senate has approved a long-term renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act by a vote of 89-10. The vote was expected after the Senate approved amendments to the USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005 which incorporate additional civil liberties protections: allowing recipients of Section 215 subpoenas for information in terror investigations to be able to challenge the accompanying gag order; eliminating a requirement that people who receive National Security Letters (NSL) must provide the FBI the names of lawyers consulted about the NSL; and clarifying current law to ensure that libraries functioning in their traditional roles would not be subject to NSLs.
The renewal legislation now goes to the House for approval, where it is expected to pass. Sixteen provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire at the end of last year, but members of Congress were unable to reach agreement on the terms of the renewal, prompting instead two short-term extensions. The renewal legislation will make 14 of the provisions permanent and extend the remaining two until 2009."
Chron: "Feingold, a possible Democratic presidential candidate, said: 'I am disappointed in this result. But I believe this fight has been worth making.'
With that, he began reading the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Then he left the chamber. Feingold later returned to read resolutions from eight states expressing concerns about the Patriot Act."
Two senators, Daschle and Leahy - democrats of course - who held up the speedy passing of the Patriot Act received letters that contained anthrax. This particular strain, known as the Ames strain, was first researched at the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland. The Ames strain was then distributed to at least fifteen bio-research labs within the US and six overseas.
Biowarfare and Terrorism: "The illegal bioweapons programme initiated under the Reagan government, continued under Clinton and vastly expanded under the current regime, reveals the linkage between the anthrax attack on Congress and 9/11.
The greatest political crime in the history of the United States of America since its founding on 4 July 1776 - the anthrax attacks on Congress, which served not only to deliver a terrorist threat to its members, but actually to close it down for a period - may remain officially unresolved forever. Could it truly be coincidental that two of the primary intended victims of the terrorist anthrax attacks - Senators Daschle and Leahe - were holding up the speedy passage of the pre-planned USA Patriot Act after the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001 - an Act which provided the federal government with unprecedented powers in relation to US citizens and institutions?"
Prof. Francis Boyle's book 'Biowarfare and Terrorism' deals with the US government's illegal multi-billion dollar biological weapons programme. A programme, that presents itself as defensive but of course, in order to produce a 'defense', requires the development of offensive bioweapons.
"In exploring the nature of the US bioweapons programme Boyle also reveals the complicity of the universities and of the scientists employed in bioweapons development with billions of dollars of funding being channelled into campuses not only across the US but also overseas. He even warns them that they too are liable to life imprisonment for their work on bioweapons."
The Federation of American Scientists has created an internet resource for biosecurity policy, bioterrorism information, and biodefense research.
AppleFritter: "Combining a data mining operation with the Patriot Act's power to access information makes it all too easy for the federal government to violate the Constitution's prohibition against unreasonable search."
And this is just one example to show how far 'Homeland Security' goes.
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