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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsrepeal the patriot act
this bill may have seemed necessary in the wake of 9/11, but so did the war. let us repeal this as well as the authorizations to use force.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/massie-gabbard-team-up-on-bill-to-repeal-the-patriot-act/ar-BB1bZaCs
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repeal the patriot act (Original Post)
rampartc
Dec 2020
OP
That was the first thing Obama said he was going to do. Must be a lot of people want to keep it.
LiberalArkie
Dec 2020
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gab13by13
(21,304 posts)1. The AUMF is a good thing,
it is supposed to prevent the president from going off to war on his own without approval from Congress.
rampartc
(5,403 posts)2. the aumf is what gives the president power to go off.
it is the prior approval o0f congress.
all of these things need sunset provisions.
LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)3. That was the first thing Obama said he was going to do. Must be a lot of people want to keep it.
William769
(55,145 posts)4. It wasn't even needed in the wake of 9/11. NT