Administration appeal for more surveillance powers sparks outcry

In a Wednesday speech at the FBI academy in Quantico, Va., Bush called for three new law enforcement powers that had been included in early version of the 2001 law, known as the USA PATRIOT Act, but that were stripped before its enactment. On Tuesday, lawmakers introduced two new bills, H.R. 3037 and H.R. 3040, that would address two of those three powers.

The first bill would authorize executive-branch officials to seize Americans' records in terrorism cases without any form of judicial review. The other measure would reverse the burden of proof by which individuals could be held without bail in cases involving terrorism. The third power, not addressed in either bill, would expand the death penalty in terrorism cases.

Posted on 2003-09-12 02:11:17.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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