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WASHINGTON – In a stinging defeat for President Bush, Senate Democrats blocked passage Friday of a new Patriot Act to combat terrorism at home, depicting the measure as a threat to the constitutional ...

An obscure bureau of the U.S. Treasury is using USA PATRIOT Act powers to sniff out under-the-table employment.

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Why did 26 House Republicans vote to block reauthorization of the Patriot Act? The Bush-era law, which gives the government broad surveillance powers, has been hated by the lefties and libertarians ...

Georgetown Law Center professor David Cole and the Humanitarian Law Project will challenge a provision of the USA Patriot Act that bans providing “expert advice and assistance” to organizations that ...

Lucye Rafferty/The Hoya Michael Joiner (MSB ’06), a member of the College Republicans discusses the effects of the Patriot Act on civil rights, on Tuesday night in White Gravenor. Partisans turned out ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Likely Republican presidential contenders Jeb Bush and Chris Christie on Friday heartily endorsed the Patriot Act and the permission it gives the government to collect phone ...

The Justice Department argued in a legal brief made public yesterday that a court that authorizes foreign intelligence surveillance in the United States has failed to recognize the expanded authority ...

Two civil liberties groups have filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Department of Justice to detail its collection of electronic data and other information under the 10-year-old counterterrorism law, the ...

The key development on President Barack Obama's promise was the passage of the USA Freedom Act on June 2, 2015. After signing two reauthorizations of the Patriot Act that left most its central ...