Constitutional Law
Sep. 26, 2009
Calling for Patriot Act Reform
Stephen Rohde of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation says reform is needed to correct abuses.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
On Oct. 26, 2001, in the wake of the fear ignited by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Attorney General John Ashcroft rammed through Congress and President George W. Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Act, a 342-page bill amending more than a dozen federal statutes, with virtually no debate. By vastly expanding the government's authority to secretly search private records and monitor communications, often without any evidence of wrongdoing, the Patriot Act invaded the right of privacy a...
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