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...Dinh said, such opportunities have gone unexplored. But he said he thought the Act??s provisions could be used more selectively as the Sept. 11 attacks receded further into the past...
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Viet Dinh ’90 told the audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that he believes most criticism of the PATRIOT Act??which permits increased governmental scrutiny of civilians by authorizing techniques like secret subpoenas and wiretaps and by creating more stringent immigration controls—is excessive...
...They offer what I prefer to call ‘pretend security,’” she said of the act??s authors. “The line between terrorism and traditional civil disobedience has been blurred...
According to Rose, though, the government never lacked the capability to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but rather lacked the organization to use existing information meaningfully. Information-seeking measures established in the PATRIOT Act will not make prevent terrorism, she said, comparing the Act??s method to the concept “that if you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, you put more hay on the stack...
...with NCLB and Democrats, who flocked to support the law after Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ‘54-’56 D-Mass., signed up as a co-sponsor. That was hardly a novel occurrence, though—every six years, when the Elementary and Secondary Education Act??s mandatory reauthorization comes before Congress, it’s the same song and dance. Accountability for failing teachers? No. Incentives for successful educators? Think again. Charter schools? Hardly. Vouchers of any kind? In your dreams. Actually, the only policy the NEA has ever favored on Capitol Hill...