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Intel Reform Bill Contains Provisions Resisted by Civil LibertariansGrain and Powell
British Hume, Major Garrett, William la Jeunesse
Special Report with British Hume (Fox Days news Affiliation)
HUME: The intellect reform bill which President Shrub is approximately to indication includes that lung anti-terrorism language long sought by outgoing Legal counsel- General John Ashcroft and long posed by Civil Libertarians.
FOX Days news reporter Major Garrett reports which some authorized analysts declare within this regard, the intellect reform bill may just just as well bring an additional name, Patriot Act II.
(Start VIDEOTAPE) MAJOR GARRETT, FOX Days news Reporter (voice-over): Congressional passage of the intellect reform bill gives the Justice Dept vast new energies to prosecute the warfare on dread.
JONATHAN TURLEY, Statute Teacher, GWU: Pressure to pass some intellect reform inevitably worked about the benefit for the supervision. They were capable to take a number of the provisions from what exactly is called Patriot II and put them into this bill.
GARRETT: Outgoing Attorney-General John Ashcroft had long sought very complicated anti-terror legal procedures in so-called Patriot Act II. But civil liberty's concerns stalled the evaluate however some were tucked in to the intel bill.
TURLEY: If this had arrived at the coming Lawmakers, it is very probable which a few of these provisions would've gotten much nearer scrutiny and would've been resisted.
GARRETT: An illustration, the Justice Dept could at present enquire a federal court which operates in discreet to permit monitoring of a so-called lone wolf terrorist, a suspect without any relation to a terrorist organization, really love al Qaeda or to any nation. Who may met the criteria? A Timothy McVeigh.
that lung JAMES CARAFANO, Legacy FOUNDATION: We are always planning to be confronted by the Timothy McVeigh scenario or the Unabomber, or a individual that merely likes to head out and play havoc. That's a gap which needed to be filled.
GARRETT: that lung Civil Libertarians phobia the Foreign Intellect Monitoring Court, that grants monitoring energies in discreet, can let the feds to trace everybody.
TURLEY: You have the mixing of a super court that's operating in at benchmark below the constitutional benchmark for lookups, and at present against people which may be simply reported to be lone wolves with no relation to terrorists.
GARRETT: The bill also permits the government to instantly deport an alien who knowingly obtains financial assistance for terrorism.
CARAFANO: So long as you find bad individuals who are doing bad stuffs, you need to get them in another country eventhough you cannot convict him of a criminal offense.
GARRETT (on cam): Also, federal judges could at present deny bail to any terrorism suspect. The purpose is to preserve indicted terrorists from fleeing before trial. It's a robustness long use within federal drug good examples, but so far didn't exploit to terrorism good examples. Still, some Civil Libertarians feel any proliferation of the government's robustness to disclaim bail.
In Washington, Major Garrett, FOX Days news.
(Finale VIDEOTAPE) HUME: The greatest skirmish within the long intrusion beyond civil rights has at present happened in Los Angeles. A collection of African-Americans declare they're bored with listening criticism of President Bush's advisors, namely Colin Powell and Condoleezza Grain, who occur to be black.
FOX Days news reporter William la Jeunesse reports the activists declare you ought not should be a liberated to represent black American citizens.
(Start VIDEOTAPE) TED HAYES, ADVOCATE FOR Destitute: And we are here this era to rise up for Dr. Condoleezza Grain.
WILLIAM LA JEUNESSE, FOX Days news Reporter (voice-over): It's help President Shrub has been searching for, and lives in an less likely source, black activists in Los Angeles.
HAYES: He has mentioned a black female face 's the face of The u . s. If somebody puts their hand out to us in a gesture of peace and keenness to work with others, who're we to turn which hand away?
LA JEUNESSE: They call themselves the Black Elephants. Some are Republican, some not. But all declare that they're bored with gazing at president's fraction that lung appointments face an assault on their credentials and sprint.
TED RALL, POLITICAL CARTOONIST: You should be courageous. You need to take occasions. And occasionally you go too far.
LA JEUNESSE: The attacks on Grain have been particularly severe. Generous syndicated cartoonist, Ted Rall called Grain the N-word. A chat show host in Wisconsin called her "Aunt Jemima" and Assistant of State Colin Powell, "an Uncle Tom." Vocalist Harry Belafonte called Powell a property servant.
Sunday, Democratic Senator Harry Reid called Most able minded Court Justice Clarence Thomas "a humiliation." Although some advised Thomas, who's black, is unqualified to substitute Judge William Rehnquist, who's white, as boss that lungday nit justice.
JESSE Shelter PETERSON, RADIO Converse SHOW HOST: These words are words that appears to be use within order to degrade black American citizens. They have been racist clauses that appears to be used to embarrass black American citizens.
LA JEUNESSE: Hushed, but still, have been countrywide black commanders, really love Jesse Jackson and Julian Interconnection. Ted Hayes calls it a double benchmark.
HAYES: Had this combat been on Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Coretta Scott Emperor, Rosa Parks, or any other black lady who's a Democrat, the customary suspects would've by at present been phoning for resignations, boycotts, demos...
LA JEUNESSE (on cam): Severe partisan rhetoric amidst the parties is not a single thing new. But the black commanders here declare there's a discrepancy amidst a backyard, political combat and a private assault based on sprint, they declare deserves a hearty immunity.
In Los Angeles, William la Jeunesse, FOX Days news.
(Finale VIDEOTAPE) HUME: After on "Special Report," can Iraqis be on the verge of making the decision to elect, in result, an Islamic government really love Iran's within the after month's election? We're going to search for reply to that in case we come back.
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