Teabaggers, whining about legislation, THEY created, signed and passed into law in under 45 days.
Time Magazine
https://time.com › Politics › National Security
Sep 11, 2021 — Within months of the attacks, the George W. Bush Administration had authorized spying on Americans, a new secretive military tribunal system ...
American Civil Liberties Union
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Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can secretly conduct a physical search or wiretap on American citizens to obtain evidence of crime without proving probable cause, as the Fourth Amendment explicitly requires.
Attempts to find out how the new surveillance powers created by the Patriot Act were implemented during their first year were in vain.
In June 2002 the House Judiciary Committee demanded that the Department of Justice answer questions about how it was using its new authority. The Bush/Ashcroft Justice Department essentially refused to describe how it was implementing the law; it left numerous substantial questions unanswered, and classified others without justification.
In short, not only has the Bush Administration undermined judicial oversight of government spying on citizens by pushing the Patriot Act into law, but it is also undermining another crucial check and balance on surveillance powers: accountability to Congress and the public.
How 9/11 Radically Expanded the Power of the U.S. ...
Time Magazine
https://time.com › Politics › National Security
Sep 11, 2021 — Within months of the attacks, the George W. Bush Administration had authorized spying on Americans, a new secretive military tribunal system ...
Surveillance Under the USA/PATRIOT Act
American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org › other › surveillance-under-usapat...
Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can secretly conduct a physical search or wiretap on American citizens to obtain evidence of crime without proving probable cause, as the Fourth Amendment explicitly requires.
Attempts to find out how the new surveillance powers created by the Patriot Act were implemented during their first year were in vain.
In June 2002 the House Judiciary Committee demanded that the Department of Justice answer questions about how it was using its new authority. The Bush/Ashcroft Justice Department essentially refused to describe how it was implementing the law; it left numerous substantial questions unanswered, and classified others without justification.
In short, not only has the Bush Administration undermined judicial oversight of government spying on citizens by pushing the Patriot Act into law, but it is also undermining another crucial check and balance on surveillance powers: accountability to Congress and the public.