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  • Patriot Fixes (reform the Patriot Act), by Bob Barr

    11/12/2004 9:24:17 AM PST · by OESY · 14 replies · 660+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | November 12, 2004 | BOB BARR
    ...Critics of the Act are not calling for full repeal. Only about a dozen of the 150 provisions need to be reformed.... The two most significant problems are sections 213 and 215. The first authorized the use of delayed-notification search warrants.... The Justice Department often claims that this new statutory "sneak and peek" power is innocuous, because the use of such warrants was commonplace before. Actually, the Patriot Act's sneak and peek authority... was available in terrorism investigations. Courts, however, put specific checks on these warrants: They could only be authorized when notice would threaten life or safety (including witness...