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JackBenny
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 2:16 pm Post subject: Attention turns back to liberty |
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It's about time, in my opinion.
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WASHINGTON A year ago, it was all about unity and security. Rattled by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Americans rallied around the flag and accepted the idea that the government needed to take extraordinary measures to make people feel safe again.
So there was little public criticism when the Bush administration began to secretly deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them from the Middle East. Not many people objected when deportation hearings, previously held in public, were closed. Or when the White House won congressional approval for expanded wiretapping and spying authority.
But now, skepticism of government is back. In public opinion polls, the courts and Congress, there is an emerging resistance to what a growing number of critics say is an extraordinary assault on civil liberties by the Bush administration:
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Full story http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s...ay/4585172
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