I support reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act and I am inclined to support adding investigative authorities, but only if it can be shown that these new authorities are necessary and would not infringe on the constitutional rights of Americans, which is a subjective subject.
Senator Rockefeller expresses conditional support for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization.
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