It permits the government to conduct necessary surveillance but within a framework of accountability and oversight.
The Senator from Alabama, I really enjoy working with him, but I wish I remembered those victories.
my concern that critical information about the implementation of the Patriot Act has not been made public.
It was sold as stated on DOJ's website in 2005 as being necessary 'to conduct investigations without tipping off terrori...
Some courts permitted secret searches in limited circumstances before the Patriot Act as I remember, but they also recog...
As I recall, it was in something called the USA Patriot Act which was passed in a rush after an attack on 9/11 that had ...
I have a full statement that I ask be placed in the record.
the Patriot Act provided statutory authority for the government to obtain that special sneak and peak, criminal search w...
the improvements that have been proposed by Senator Feingold and by Senator Leahy are so important.
So is the option of a criminal wire tap order an adequate alternative in the Lone Wolf situation?
I'm glad the committee is moving forward on Patriot Act reauthorization.
I also ask that letters in support of the Justice Act bill that we have introduced be placed in the hearing record as we...
the lack of safeguards contributed to the misuse of NSLs?
I introduced legislation along with Senator Durbin and eight other senators that takes a comprehensive approach to fixin...
sneak and peak search warrants were requested 763 times but only three of those initial requests were in terrorism cases...
I do take a little bit of a pride of authorship in the fact that with the Sensenbrenner PATRIOT Act, 15 of the 17 expand...
I would say that, in many cases, you have vindicated many of the assertions that I made, both as the author of the PATRI...
Now, if it isn't unconstitutional, and it's working, then really, I don't think that we should break something that does...
