Debating The Patriot Act: Democrats Stretch The Truth, Republican Stretch Their Legs

AP reports: “The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.”

Democrats are used to shouting. No substance is more effective at high volume.

The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.

Democrats asked for the hearing, the 11th the committee has held on the act since April, saying past hearings had been too slanted toward witnesses who supported the law. The four witnesses were from groups, including Amnesty International USA and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, that have questioned the constitutionality of some aspects of the act, which allows law enforcement greater authority to investigate suspected terrorists.”

Amnesty International? Immigration Lawyers Association?

We’d walk out, too.

One Response to “Debating The Patriot Act: Democrats Stretch The Truth, Republican Stretch Their Legs”

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