And a piece in the Atlantic[1] says that actually, Obama's threat to Veto this bill is only, "... not because he is alarmed by its civil-liberties implications, but because the extraordinary powers it would hand him are in some cases less sweeping and more constraining than what he has asserted for himself via frustratingly secret Office of Legal Counsel memos. (For example, it would force him to keep some War on Terror detainees in military custody.)"
How can Americans still want to "play it safe" when every single one of the GOP candidates besides Ron Paul said they would extend the Patriot Act, too, in the last debate. It's time for radical change that would actually turn this trend around of stamping over the Constitution and rights.
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