[steve50]

Keeps getting stranger. Was a story out that the Patriot Act supporters thought they had this provision beat on a technicality, now they're talked about gutting it in compromise. Damn hard to get government to give up a power, once they've had a little taste.

I'd like to see the whole bill redone myself, now that we're a little calmer. It was passed unread under panic circumstances, not grounds for good lawmaking.

[dirtboy]

I'd like to see the whole bill redone myself, now that we're a little calmer.

I think there are provisions worth keeping - for example, it makes sense in this day and age that an agency could get wiretap authority for all phones owned or used on a regular basis by a suspect with a blanket warrant.

[Huck]

It was passed unread under panic circumstances, not grounds for good lawmaking.

A dose of opportunism,however well meaning it may have been. It appears to me that more debate would be welcome, especially since the GOP is split 50-50 on it. To hell with the demoncrats, I'd at least like to hear GOPers whom I respect debate both sides of the Patriot Act.