Thursday, September 27, 2007

Baby steps back towards actual constitutional democracy.

Gonna be a long walk.

Court declares parts of Patriot Act unconstitutional - Boing Boing:
"Today, Judge Ann Aiken of the Oregon Federal District Court ruled that two provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), '50 U.S.C. §§ 1804 and 1823, as amended by the Patriot Act, are unconstitutional because they violate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.'

This case arose over warrantless surveillance of an innocent Oregon attorney who was falsely suspected of involvement with the Madrid train bombing based on a mistaken fingerprint identification."

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