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Leahy-Feinstein Substitute Patriot Act Amendments Approved by Judiciary Committee

The Leahy-Feinstein substitute bill I discussed in my piece this morning about the USA PATRIOT Act was just approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 13-8, with only minor word changes.

Amendments proposed by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) that would have required that the target of a National Security More…

Feingold: We’re Not the Prosecutor Committee, We’re the Judiciary Committee

Most of the senators on the Judiciary Committee today seem to be bending over backwards to give the FBI and Justice Department every benefit of the doubt when it comes to the tools they say they need to fight terrorism. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just warned of all the people More…