The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses

Throtex writes "Orin Kerr, Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University writes at The Volokh Conspiracy that the Department of Justice is having trouble finding abuses of the USA PATRIOT Act. This follows from the fact that what the media originally aired as abuses were merely allegations of abuse at the time. Could it be that there has just been a lot of fuss over nothing?"

Everything is ok! Shhh, now go back to sleep...

[Hoi Polloi]

Government investigates itself and doesn't find any problems. News at 11.

Sorta like Fight Club

[X86Daddy]

First rule of being abused by the Patriot Act:

You don't talk about being abused by the Patriot Act.

Re:Why Am I Not Surprised?

[Kick the Donkey]

In other news: Micorsoft announced difficulties finding evidence of a monopoly within the walls of Redmond.

I don't see any problems

[ericbrow]

After a serious review of my hard drive, I can report to the RIAA that I have NO illegally downloaded music on my hard drive either. Hey, if it works for the justice department....

Re: One place to look

[bluprint]

The topic is about the PATRIOT act. Maybe we should talk about how conversation should have a topic, and that people must be on the same topic to have a conversation...

Re:My real concern...

[Mortanius]

Clinton '08!

Re:One place to look

[TedCheshireAcad]

Nearly all of the detainees are being held without charges and some have been imprisoned there for more than three years.

Or at least until Jack Nicholson orders the Code Red.

Re:Why Am I Not Surprised?

[poot_rootbeer]

These assholes covered up the murder of a Federal inmate at the Oklahoma City Transit Center, among numerous other situations.

They must not have done a very good job of it, if YOU know about it.

PPOR: it's the Official Acronym of the Internet.

Re:ACLU Approves Of Overwhelming Majority of Patri

[Duhavid]

Here is something you have to eat.

Only 1% of it is poisonous.

It is 99% good! See, you should eat it!
What are you fussing about?

Oh, that that 1% may kill you? What kind
of a whiny left wing socialist are you?
Eat!

David

Re:One place to look

[sycodon]

If he was convicted of nearly 3000 1st degree muders in NY, then he would be looking at 7-10 years with time off for good behaviour.

Re:Defensible

[lga]

there may be a few hundred who are hell bent on inflicting as much violence as possible on innocent people.

I agree. And they work for the US government.

Why Don't You Ask: ( +1, Patriotic )

[Anonymous Coward]

the wold's most dangerous and inarticulate "leader" [whitehouse.org]?

Of course, his handlers won't let him vomit anything without
cue cards; a teleprompter, and President-Vice Cheney's arm.

Patriotically as always,
K. Trout, CEO

You have to love it

[Evets]

And in other news today, the Justice Department has reported that it is not abusing it's power. To quote the Fuhrer, uh, I mean, director: "A bunch of people called us to tell us we were abusing the system, but then we looked into it and those people are totally wrong. And even though a couple of those people were sort of right, they totally called the wrong number to complain, so they don't really count."

Re:One place to look

[davez0r]

I'm pretty sure Hittler spoke words like that.

congratulations! according to popular interpretation of godwin's law [wikipedia.org], you just lost the argument.

Ken Lay unable to find violations at Enron

[Anonymous Coward]

Kenneth Lay can't find violations at Enron

OJ is still looking for his wife's killer

Now, the Justice department can't find violations at Justice department

Someone call Nixon's speechwriter...