Posted on 11/20/2019 1:12:58 PM PST by OddLane
It may seem to many Americans that Washington is entirely consumed by the impeachment inquiry, and that no other important business is getting done on Capitol Hill. But on Tuesday, in a break from televised hearings, the House of Representatives voted to fund the government through December 20. If passed by the Senate, the continuing resolution would prevent a government shutdown and forestall a debate about border-wall funding. Most Popular
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That’s all well and good, except that Democratic leaders had slipped something else into the bill: a three-month extension of the Patriot Act, the post-9/11 law that gave the federal government sweeping surveillance and search powers and circumvented traditional law-enforcement rules. Key provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire on December 15, including Section 215, the legal underpinning of the call detail records program exposed in the very first Edward Snowden leak...
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The author speaks as if the Republicans won’t vote for this.
Only Rand Paul will even make note of the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
Republicans love it as much as Democrats.
Yes! Proves that they’re either confident they can rig the elections or delusional to think they can win!
Simple. Section 326(b) - VERIFICATION OF IDENTIFICATION.
It is the provision that allowed US banks and financial institutions to accept the Mexican Matricula Consular card as valid ID from Mexican illegal aliens to open US bank accounts, obtain business loans, home loans, auto loans and US credit cards.
In 2001, Congress sent a request for opinion to Bush's Treasury Dept. about 326(b). Bush's Treasury responded:
| “The proposed rules set forth the requirement that financial institutions would have to establish a customer identification and verification program applicable to all new accounts that are opened, regardless of whether the customer is a U.S. citizen or a foreign national. While the proposed rules prescribe minimum standards for such programs, they leave sufficient flexibility to permit financial institutions to tailor their program to fit their business operations. The customer identification program would have to contain reasonable procedures for identifying any person, including a business, that opens an account, setting forth the type of identifying information that the financial institution will require. At a minimum, for U.S. persons the proposed rules would require financial institutions to obtain the following information: name, address, taxpayer identification number, and, for individuals, date of birth. While a taxpayer identification number is not required for non-U.S. persons, a financial institution must describe what type of information it will require of a non-U.S. person in place of a taxpayer identification number. The regulations state that financial institutions may accept one or more of the following: a U.S. taxpayer identification number; a passport number and country of issuance; an alien identification card number, or the number and country of issuance of any other government-issued document evidencing nationality or residence and bearing a photograph or similar safeguard.” |
This opinion also contained a footnote (17):
| “Thus, the proposed regulations do not discourage bank acceptance of the ‘matricula consular’ identity card that is being issued by the Mexican government to immigrants.” |
Note that no Mexican banks accept their own government's Matricula Consular card as valid ID for opening a bank account because the bearer's identity is all but untraceable. In contrast, thanks to Bush's Treasury Dept., almost all US banks accept it.
This asks the wrong question. The real question is why would any small government “conservative” Republican support the Patriot Act?
No islam, know peace.
Please “conservatives”, help conserve the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments, instead of trying to conserve whatever the current state of post Hart Cellar madness may be at hand.
Because they have used it to harm Americans
Because they have used it to harm Americans
Bin Laden could NEVER imagine how successful his 9/11 was even close to 20 years after the fact.
Thus, the death-by-a-thousand-little-cuts of the remains of the Constitution and the Republic was both accelerated and, ultimately, made permanent...
Because Deep State Democrats subvert it to spy on Republicans.
The Patriot Act is what made the spying and attempted coup on Trump possible.
Hopefully Trump will sink this with much fanfare.
That’s all it was ever meant to do.
Because the only thing that can bring both democrats and republicans together is shafting the American people.
Trump signs continuing resolution, averting a midnight shutdown By Adam MazmanianNov 21, 2019
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