FC: DC update: Congress may not rush on Bush's MATA anti-terror bill

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 13:42:33 PDT

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    Congress Weighs Anti-Terror Bill
    By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
    2:00 a.m.  Sep. 25, 2001 PDT
    
    WASHINGTON -- Few would have predicted it in the immediate aftermath of the 
    Sept. 11 attacks, but Congress is not rushing to enact sweeping 
    anti-terrorism laws.
    
    Instead of acquiescing to Attorney General John Ashcroft's request for such 
    laws immediately -- Ashcroft was hoping for final votes by last Saturday -- 
    legislators seem to be carefully weighing how new laws will affect 
    Americans' liberties.
    
    On Monday afternoon, Ashcroft received a cordial but critical reception 
    when he showed up in front of the House Judiciary committee to ask that 
    members increase telephone and Internet wiretapping and permit police to 
    indefinitely detain immigrants who are suspected terrorists.
    
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    Wiretap Bill Gets Third Degree
    By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
    2:00 a.m.  Sep. 26, 2001 PDT
    
    WASHINGTON -- President Bush's proposal to permit Internet surveillance 
    without a court order drew sharp questions from senators on Tuesday.
    
    Members of the Senate Judiciary committee appeared divided over whether the 
    Mobilization Against Terrorism Act (MATA), which the Justice Department 
    sent to Congress this week, was a vital anti-terrorism measure or an 
    infringement of privacy.
    
    It wasn't a partisan split: Left-leaning Dianne Feinstein of California and 
    conservative icon Chuck Grassley of Iowa both wondered during Tuesday's 
    hearing whether the administration's bill could be reworked -- just a bit 
    -- to resolve some of their worries.
    
    [...]
    
    
    
    
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