In a slap at President Bush,lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library record
June 14, 2005

In a slap at President Bush,lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips... "This is a tremendous victory that restores important constitutional rights to the American people," said Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., the sponsor of the measure. He said the vote would help "rein in an administration intent on chipping away at the very civil liberties that define us as a nation." ...read on

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