12-30-2005, 05:30 PM
Sir O Wrote:Hoon Wrote:when they start abusing the patriot act or other measures to start prosecuting anything other than situations directly relating to terrorism, then it becomes a problem.
Well let's see shall we...
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Quote:Politicians indicted on multiple counts of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from the owner of local strip clubs in exchange for rolling back regulations of what strippers can do.
But what has this got to do with terrorism?
Nothing at all, everybody involved agrees. Yet FBI agents in Las Vegas used a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain the financial records and hundreds of phone taps of several suspects in the case, from San Diego to Las Vegas.
It is one of more than a dozen cases in which federal investigators have relied on the Patriot Act -- passed a month after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a response to terrorism -- for purposes unrelated to homeland security, according to The New York Times.
You were saying?
that's an editorial. not a news article.
editorials aren't held up for their credibility and adherence to facts. i have a feeling there was a reason the money laundering was tied to or came to light - directly or indirectly with terrorism.