Domestic Security and Enhancement Act (Patriot II) The Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan, public service journalism (non-profit) organization has published a leaked version of the Patriot II Act. You may recall after 9/11, the US enacted the Patriot Act, which allowed law enforcement organizations broader powers of surveillance and detention. Patriot II, as the new bill is dubbed, loosens the restrictions in place on law enforcement organizations even further. The act would allow the government to conduct domestic wiretapping without a court order; secretly detain citizens; detain any alien convicted of drug possession or an aggravated felony; access a citizen's credit history without a court order; ease restrictions on the use of secret evidence; and extend authorization for secret wiretaps and internet surveillance. Feels like they're moving back to the 1950s down there.

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