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Heat-Seeking Missives

A Senate Committee looks to rein in one of the FBI’s favorite tools: the national security letter

By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

There’s a move afoot on Capitol Hill to rein in some of the vast powers conferred upon government investigators by the PATRIOT Act, the infamous, hastily crafted law written in response to the September 11th attacks. New legislation has been introduced in both Houses of Congress intended to curb the FBI’s ability to collect private data on virtually anybody using… return to article

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