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Murray painted a dire picture of the Patriot Act??s implications, citing secret subpoenas of personal records, unreported searches by campus police, an abolition of due-cause requirements for apprehension and creation of “magic lantern” software that secretly reports e-mail content and Internet usage information back to government sources...
Citing what she called an “extreme example” of the Patriot Act??s effects within a university environment, Murray recounted 120 federal agents’ 4 a.m. raid on dormitories at the University of Idaho last winter to apprehend the president of the student Islamic society and round up 20 other international students on suspicion of subversive activity...
...addition to strengthening existing connections to Boston and Cambridge public school systems, Lagemann has turned her gaze outward to include President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act?? and other policy issues of national importance...
...reasonable to expect some restrictions of civil liberties during a time of war, and some of the PATRIOT Act??s provisions are necessary to help law enforcement officials deal with changing technology. But America will never be able to declare victory in the war on terror; this conflict, unlike a conventional war, will never end in unconditional surrender. Any sacrifices we make will be permanent. As if to drive that point home, the government has recently been pushing to overturn the original four-year “sunset” limits on the PATRIOT Act?...
...terror threats jeopardize our way of life, America needs a new plan for terrorism. But instead of permanently adopting legislation full of affronts on individual liberties, Congress must prevent Hatch’s rider from getting passed. A new anti-terrorism plan may draw on some of the PATRIOT Act??s more successful legislation, but blindly accepting the existing act will inadequately fight terrorism and extensively curb our freedoms...