USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt (fwd from brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org)

Steve Schear s.schear at comcast.net
Fri Jul 9 11:30:52 PDT 2004


At 06:27 AM 7/9/2004, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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>From: brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org
>Date: 9 Jul 2004 13:26:01 -0000
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>Subject: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt
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>Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/09/1145225
>Posted by: michael, on 2004-07-09 12:49:00
>Topic: us, 90 comments
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>    from the i-feel-safer-already dept.
>    crem_d_genes writes "A bill to modify the USA PATRIOT Act that would
>    have blocked part of the legislation's provisions that allow for the
>    investigation of people's reading habits [1]was defeated by a 210-210
>    vote in the U.S House of Representives. The House leaders kept the
>    roll call open for 23 minutes past the 15 minute deadline to persuade
>    10 Representatives to change votes. According to the article 'Rep.
>    Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., said he switched his initial "yes" vote to "no"
>    after being shown Justice Department documents asserting that
>    terrorists have communicated over the Internet via public library
>    computers.' On the other hand, 'Critics of the Patriot Act argued that
>    even without it, investigators can get book store and other records
>    simply by obtaining subpoenas or search warrants.'"

Quite a few book stores (including the local Half-Priced Books) now keep no 
records not required and some do not even automate and encourage their 
patron to pay cash.  In California book sellers to such used/remaindered 
stores must identify themselves for tax purposes.

steve 





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