Power Grab: Ashcroft overturns 4th Amend
Administration Calls for Unprecedented Subpoena Powers http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-subpoena14sep14,1,68900... Unlike in ordinary criminal investigations, Ashcroft would not need the approval of a grand jury or a judge to order witnesses to appear for questioning. "The attendance of witnesses and the production of records may be required from any place in any state or in any territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at any designated place of hearing," the administration's bill says. ... The bill includes a "nondisclosure requirement" as well. "If the Attorney General certifies [there] may result a danger to the national security, no person shall disclose to any other person that a subpoena was received or records were provided," it says. Grand juries operate in secret as well. And though they are often seen as a rubber stamp for the government, Cole said the mere presence of the jurors restrains prosecutors. "There is a real difference when a prosecutor knows 23 citizens are there observing what's going on," he said ... The administration proposal was introduced in the House last week by Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.). Hmm, other Rep.tiles from Fla get turned into boots. And they're not even raping the constitution.
Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Administration Calls for Unprecedented Subpoena Powers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-subpoena14sep14,1,68900.... story?coll=la-home-todays-times
Unlike in ordinary criminal investigations, Ashcroft would not need the approval of a grand jury or a judge to order witnesses to appear for questioning.
"The attendance of witnesses and the production of records may be required from any place in any state or in any territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at any designated place of hearing," the administration's bill says.
... The bill includes a "nondisclosure requirement" as well. "If the Attorney General certifies [there] may result a danger to the national security, no person shall disclose to any other person that a subpoena was received or records were provided," it says.
Grand juries operate in secret as well. And though they are often seen as a rubber stamp for the government, Cole said the mere presence of the jurors restrains prosecutors. "There is a real difference when a prosecutor knows 23 citizens are there observing what's going on," he said
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The administration proposal was introduced in the House last week by Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.).
Hmm, other Rep.tiles from Fla get turned into boots. And they're not even raping the constitution.
McCarthy? The tee-shirt is mostly methane now. -- Peter Fairbrother
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