• tighten the PATRIOT Act’s requirements for advance judicial approval and judicial review;

• impose a shorter-term sunset clause on all provisions of the PATRIOT Act;

• exclude ordinary criminal activities from coverage of the PATRIOT Act;

• establish rules that govern detention of citizens and noncitizens suspected of terrorist links; and

• ensure that domestic detainees have access to counsel and judicial review.

Congress should:

• repeal the PATRIOT Act

• Obama Abuses of the Patriot Act
• Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps by John W. Whitehead

• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Terrorists: A Rutherford Institute Response to Attorney General John Ashcroft’s “Patriot Act Tour” and Website [pdf]

  • DOJ Archive of Ashcroft's Website | @ archive.org 10/26/2006

• The Patriot Act Is at War with the Constitution by Bruce Fein
• Let the Patriot Act Expire by Philip Giraldi
• EFF Analysis of USA PATRIOT Act
• ACLU Analysis of Patriot Act Abuses
  • The Government Might Know You're Reading This
  • Surveillance Under the USA PATRIOT Act
• Unfathomed Dangers in Patriot Act Reauthorization
• American Police State
  "Were Americans in such danger of terrorist attacks that they needed to give up legal protections won over eight centuries of struggle against the arbitrary power of governments? Surely not."
• The PATRIOT Act’s Assault on the Bill of Rights
• Rep. Ron Paul and the Patriot Act
• USA PATRIOT Act and Domestic Detention Policy [pdf]
• How Congress Has Assaulted Our Freedoms in the Patriot Act by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
• Take Action: Repeal the Patriot Act

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