Try reading the article Deb. They're not whining about the Act.
I read it. It's the same as all the attack pieces by all the left-wing hacks who pretend there is somethng to fear from legislation that allows the feds to do what local police do everyday. The same people who have told us for years that the CIA is the real enemy and that protest is patriotism and the ACLU is looking after your civil liberties and that our security agencies shouldn't be able to get intel from our allies and that all our agencies should be neutered and the Boy Scouts are a threat and homosexuality is good for the armed forces and on and on and on...
There's a reason no non-Muslim is part of any ACLU action against Ashcroft...because the rats need to bell the cat and poison the dog before they come for you.
Eat it up. The dopers have always bunked with the enemy. Anything to keep that buzz.