"Folks, When We're Dealing With Civil Liberties, You Don't Compromise Them..."

Associated Press December 15, 2005 at 11:49 PM
AP/Bush-Cheney 2004

In Congress, where numbers are everything, the math on the Patriot Act suddenly seems to be moving in favor of Sen. Russell Feingold.

He was a minority of one four years ago, when the Wisconsin Democrat cast the lone Senate vote against the USA Patriot Act in the traumatic weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. The law, he said then, gave government too much power to investigate its citizens. Ninety-nine senators disagreed.

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