The Patriot Act was passed six weeks after September 11, in such haste that some provisions were subject to 'sunset.' That means they'll expire at the end of this year unless Congress restores them.

In the aftermath of September 11, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which gave Attorney General John Ashcroft sweeping new powers to investigate and prosecute suspected terrorists. Now, a proposed ...

News AssistantThe staff of Attorney General John Ashcroft has drafted a controversial bill that would broaden the gathering powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies and expand on the ...

The House of Representatives voted on Friday to reauthorize a new version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702, with provisions that amount to the greatest expansion of ...

from a bipartisan group of congresspersons and other concerned citizens. The Patriot Act was passed within a month of the 9-11 tragedy. Congress hadn’t had time to read the act and debate it. Who ...

2003-09-25 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Several Bay Area Democrats moved Wednesday to repeal some provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which Congress passed overwhelmingly soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, ...

Despite the quickly falling snow, students gathered Tuesday evening in a mostly-full ASEAN Auditorium for a rescheduled discussion of increased law enforcement powers after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks ...

An April 21 article on the response of Arcata, Calif., to the USA Patriot Act included a quotation from FBI special agent LaRae Quy that should have been attributed to the San Francisco Chronicle.

I want to address two of the questions Matt Lawrence asked in his recent column ("UCS doesn't speak for us on national politics," March 23). Why is it UCS's job to pass resolutions and what's the ...

With the United States deeply involved in war in Iraq, and continuing a war against terrorism around the world, it is tempting to write new rules which would make it easier for law enforcement ...