Oct 2nd, 2009
Posted by Amanda Simon, ACLU at 5:00pm	Keep America Safe & Free, Secrecy, Surveillance, USA PATRIOT Act

Patriot Reauthorization Begins. Badly.

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee started its markup of a bill that will both extend the three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act and add a few minor fixes to other overly broad surveillance provisions of the act. The bill the committee is working on is not, sadly, the bill the ACLU was hoping for.

We had thrown our weight/hope behind a bill introduced by committee members Sens. Feingold (D-Wis.) and Durbin (D-Ill.) called the JUSTICE Act. The JUSTICE Act would go a long way in fixing the surveillance state our government has created in the time since 9/11. The bill addresses the civil liberties failings not only in the Patriot Act but also amends the disastrous FISA Amendments Act (yeah, we're suing) and tweaks other surveillance laws to bring them all in line with the Constitution. The committee decided to go ahead with its chairman's bill, Sen. Leahy's USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act, which has some good fixes in it but is not nearly close to the sweeping reform needed for the Patriot Act.

Well, unfortunately, the first thing the committee agreed to substitute Sen. Leahy's base bill with a bill that he worked on with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). In a very real way, the bill went from having minor fixes to having even smaller modifications. Sigh.

(Also, yesterday, the WLO's National Security Policy Counsel, Mike German, appeared on Glenn Greenwald's radio show to talk Patriot. Mike followed up with Glenn shortly after the markup began to share the disheartening news of the Feinstein-Leahy substitute bill.)

As the markup continued, amendments were offered to the bill by Sens. Feingold, Durbin, Kyl and others. The committee, thankfully, accepted Sen. Feingold's amendment that shortens the time period on the infamous "sneak and peek" provision, which allows law enforcement agencies to delay giving notice when they conduct a search. Durbin's amendment to narrow the broad Section 215 powers, which allows the government to gain access to "any tangible thing," failed. You win some, you lose some.

The committee didn't finish its work on the bill yesterday and will continue its markup next Thursday the 8. The good news? Now you've got an extra week to contact your senators' offices urging them to vote to add any JUSTICE Act amendments to the bill next markup. These are the committee members who didn't even support Senator Durbin's amendment to rein in the so-called "library provision"/ Section 215 power: Senators Leahy (D-Vt.), Kohl (D-Wis.), Feinstein (D-Calif.), Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kaufman (D-Del., Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Franken (D-Minn.) and Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Maybe you could give them a call and let them know that next week they need to make sure they're on the side of civil liberties – especially when it comes to National Security Letters, which will undoubtedly come up.

On the flipside, Sens. Feingold, Cardin (D-Md.) and Specter (D-Pa.) might like to hear from you that you're grateful they voted the right way during this markup and should keep it up next week. Listen: We all need a little positive reinforcement now and again.

Get dialing folks!

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1. anom Says:
   Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:17pm

   what can"we the people" do about the patriot act besides contacting our congressmen?

2. Jerry Halpern Says:
   Oct 9th, 2009 at 6:46pm

   The Democratic Senators are not much better than the GOP Senators. They are making it much more palatable to vote for a third party (not Ralph Nader, of course)but any true liberal.

3. Anonymous Says:
   Oct 11th, 2009 at 7:35pm

   This revision doe'snt surprise me in the least:
   My friend was tortured in Dearborn Mi
   repeatedly thru Ganstalkers and their tactic's.2 United State's Postal Supervisor'saided and abbeded in the Crimminal Solicitation of this
   Torture thru Provacation by Association/
   on Postal Property between 7-13 time's
   this legal term is the description defined by law"Crimminal Solicitaion which was initiated thru GangStalking tactics while the perpetrator's aoosiated themselve's to their tactic's toward's the victim with the only intent to PROVOKE the crimminal solicitation of the desired result TORTURE:Now in 2007( 2 detailed copy's of the timeline of torture the victim compiled that occured at 1 address in Dearborn,which was handwritten ended up in 2 different place's.
   1 of these place's was a U haul storage unit:
   the 2'nd was hand deilvered to the FBI Field office in Detroit which at that time she was given a Visitor's badge:
   (This visitor's badge was mailed to Geoffrey Fiegar"Along with a key to the Uhaul Storage unit whier the other copy was, in a letter describing what she had and was currently experiencing and wheir she was still experiencing these tactic's of the GangStalker's, weir mailed from a University in Wayne county:The reply letter to the letter sent to Mr Fiegar did not include the visitor's badge or the key:
   Then a person connected to the GangStalker's"(Who by the way just moved to UTAH)ended up telling the victim Uhaul called her to offer to let this person retrieve the victim's property when she took off to Tennesse:
   Boom The Timeline is retreived and Missing with a Taolered excuse she thru everything out"Why whould she go get everything just to throw it out"
   Anyway's as a result of this Learning Disabled woman's disabilitie's she no longer could handle carrying aroung so much stuff and rewriting hundred's of Pages of a timeline of torture which was
   extremley timeconsuming and a painstaking effort since she's learning disabled so she started compiling a Timeline on the Internet thru email account's.
   This timeline was mostly compiled at 2 differnt location's 1 of the location's is weir the letter was sent to Mr Fiegar from and another in Ann Arbor:
   Both of these librarie's among other's she has experienced cyber survallance cyberstalking and cyber espionage/and deliberate cyber hinderance and other tactic's "Like say if she went to send a detailed note to WXYZ Investigative reporter's they'd wait until the email was almost concluded and then shut her computer down or stop the email from being sent.The Federal and State Government is all over this woman using GangStalking Tactic's themselve's which also include using corrupt mental Health official's that are PAID thru Hospital's that recieve huge Fedaeral Tax Break's and Funding and that accept Medicare and Medicaid Their basically State/County paid Hospital's with these Doctor's aideing and abbeding their tactic's with deliberate false diagnose's to discredit teh Victim and to ultimitley contain her to contain this story:
   THe victim called 911 many time's when she just became overwhelmed with their GangStalking Tactic's witch is one of their desired result's of teh reason why they employ them.They GangStalked her know since 2004 for this eventual and ultimate result.
   Read Gang Stalkiing on the internet.
   The Following is something the victim has also experience so many time she cant count them on her hand's and toe's they have used employee's of buisness she frequent's along daily route's to verbally que with with dialog that is only reconized between the perpetraor's and the victim and they have used these same employee's as a mean's for survallance it's how they got a security Gaurd at a major Grocery Store to contain her on something that is strongly connected to this case they will in the future continue to solicit aid from places like her medical doctor's office and other office's and social service's their currently trying to coherse her to go to this includes Cmmunity Food Bank's and diffinitly Social Service's in Michigan a wayne county office:
   They are literally all over her literally day and night everysingle place she goe's:
   They have stolenand altered audio tape's and Police report's and printed out information from the University that she mainly visit's They recently stole some printout's on a organnization
   which then 2 day's later she caght them on tape soliciting her thru them trying to associate themselve's to her thru the name of this organization knowing that the printout was printed from the Uiversity they have employed their tactic's hundred's of time's:When they went thru her things at her recent hospital stay she was cohersed into thru her exhaustion they stole the printout's and her Birth certificate among other thing's also the sitter who sit's with you at teh hospital verball qued her with thde GangStaklking Tactic
   called Direct Conversation.
   Last week the victim went and victed a high Government official today their police circle aroung her with 7 police car's within 25 secound's reminding her of their visit these poloice cars were in a different city but they im sure orchestrated it to look official in case it's mentioned in court it's what they do they employ their tactic's use their connection's to make them look legitimate so the victim is called and perceived as crazy
   THe Dearborn Fire Department is extremly involved in these GangStalking Tactic's which will be expalined late
   Please contact Ms Shelie Weisberg or a Brenda Bove for this woman to let them know that when the victim finally approaches them that she is going to really need some personnal time with them and it will have to be soon their after the evidence thyat was revealed yesterday at this University which reconnect's them to the printout the stole betwwen September 30th 2009 and October 2'nd 2009 this is the same university that this woman visit's very frequently were the tactic's involved with the patriot Act are being used this woman is courages brave fed yup and trhuthfully no longer scared and they are starting to come to term's with her resolve and thh fact that their previos method's are no longer working.

4. Learning Disabled Woman RepeatedleyTortured in Dearborn Mi Says:
   Oct 12th, 2009 at 8:05pm

   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   Do we not have a right to know were our tax dollar's go:I noticed that yes she is providing Tax Dollars to medicaid a well intentioned program for our fellow tax payer's who need it:What were you to honestly deduce if you learned that the Woman swho was tortured was tortured so severley at time's she had to run to the hospital thru calling 911?mostly thru the city's were Police played a direct role in at least the cover up:when she arrived at these hospital's they kept her in emergency 1 night then transferred her to a physchiatric ward usually thru county hospital'sCOUNTY:whier their corrupt state paid mental health official's deliberatley and falasley diagnosed her with BI-Polor as a tool fordiscrediting her:This subject today were extend to 6-7 post's one being a continum of the previous-so the full part of this tragic story can thouroughly be understood for what it really is the thruth
   Granholms Role
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   Jennifer Granholm was anonymously emailed by the closet freind of this Woman who was tortured.
   She was emailed anonymously 6-7 time's thru the Citizen's Assistance feature under Contact The Govenor at Michigan.gov's, their website:As a result of her being emailed from a place were the perpetrator's "GangStalked her at which diffinitly includes the Dearborn Police and the FBI from the field office in Detroit Mi"After these email's were sent anonymously harrassment and intimidation by the Police Department's along her route's increased on a almost undescribible scale:These Police Department's include Wayne police and Fire Department,Dearborn Police and Fire Department,Dearborn Height's Police,Inkster Police,The wayne county sherrif's department,The FBI Detroit Field Office,Northville Police once,Livonia police in survallance and intimidation once...Redford Police big time But it's mostly been Dearborn
   See Nxt Pst
   10/12/2009 7:52:08 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:Jennifer Granholm was anonymously emailed by the closet freind of this Woman who was tortured.She was emailed anonymously 6-7 time's thru the Citizen's Assistance feature under Contact The Govenor at Michigan.gov's, their website:As a result of her being emailed from a place were the perpetrator's "GangStalked her at which diffinitly includes the Dearborn Police and the FBI from the field office in Detroit Mi"After these email's were sent anonymously harrassment and intimidation by the Police Department's along her route's increased on a almost undescribible scale:These Police Department's include Wayne police and Fire Department,Dearborn Police and Fire Department,Dearborn Height's Police,Inkster Police,The wayne county sherrif's department,The FBI Detroit Field Office,Northville Police once,Livonia police in survallance and intimidation once...Redford Police big time But it's mostly been Dearborn See Nxt Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   The Detroit Police under killpatrick's administartion The Ann Arbor Police,The police in Pittsfield Township.....See 2 United State's Postal Supervisor's aided and abbeded in The Direct Crimminal Solicitation of Torture by Provacation and thru association on Postal Property between 6-9 time's:In the victim's nietivity she wrote a letter in september 2006 to the Post Master they never appraoched this woman once:But they will soon and that part of the story will unfold in the public's eye when the Timeline of Torture is Introduced thru several Social Platform's on the InternetWhich is one of the main reason's their trying to literally set her up right know because they know she went to the ACLU on Woodward in Detroit Last week,and they know and understand wheir she at in her presentation preperation of teh timeline thru their cybersurvallance and when she goe's online at a place she been Gang Satlked at
   See nxt Pst
   10/12/2009 8:01:48 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:The Detroit Police under killpatrick's administartion The Ann Arbor Police,The police in Pittsfield Township.....See 2 United State's Postal Supervisor's aided and abbeded in The Direct Crimminal Solicitation of Torture by Provacation and thru association on Postal Property between 6-9 time's:In the victim's nietivity she wrote a letter in september 2006 to the Post Master they never appraoched this woman once:But they will soon and that part of the story will unfold in the public's eye when the Timeline of Torture is Introduced thru several Social Platform's on the InternetWhich is one of the main reason's their trying to literally set her up right know because they know she went to the ACLU on Woodward in Detroit Last week,and they know and understand wheir she at in her presentation preperation of teh timeline thru their cybersurvallance and when she goe's online at a place she been Gang Satlked atSee nxt Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   Here is a real important point to understand her it's extremley important:The victim has evidence tied to her clothing her undergarment's she also weir's a Digital Tape Recorder with aextended external micro phone that run's up to the begginning of her neck :She doe's both for 2 exact reason's based on experience like you whould not belive:These experience's include altearation of Micro Casset'es :erasing of micro Cassiett's:Theft of micro Cassett's:The Theft of previous Digital recorder's back in 2006-07and 1 recently in July,theft's of 2 MP3 Player's that had voice file's of the perpetrator's on them.Camer's and Film that were stlen Notarie's that predicted possible future behavior's of the perpetratior's,Mail theft and Delayment of the victim's mail.Theft of previous written out timeline's of torture:(Peronnal footnote to the Public the FBI was given a copy of a section of the timeline in July 2006:
   See Nx Pst
   10/12/2009 8:11:26 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:Here is a real important point to understand her it's extremley important:The victim has evidence tied to her clothing her undergarment's she also weir's a Digital Tape Recorder with aextended external micro phone that run's up to the begginning of her neck :She doe's both for 2 exact reason's based on experience like you whould not belive:These experience's include altearation of Micro Casset'es :erasing of micro Cassiett's:Theft of micro Cassett's:The Theft of previous Digital recorder's back in 2006-07and 1 recently in July,theft's of 2 MP3 Player's that had voice file's of the perpetrator's on them.Camer's and Film that were stlen Notarie's that predicted possible future behavior's of the perpetratior's,Mail theft and Delayment of the victim's mail.Theft of previous written out timeline's of torture:(Peronnal footnote to the Public the FBI was given a copy of a section of the timeline in July 2006:See Nx Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   Now recently the perpetraor's made anonther boo boo in their vanity and both time's it was caught on tape, the perptrator's know these boo boo's were caught on tape,and they are aware thiese tape recorderrs are not keept in her back pack but tied to her clothing right know she has 3 in her possesion) So they will have to come up with a way to get ahold of this proof: but here's a important fact she stopped communicating with people who were involved with this(That will be included in The Timeline on Face Book)in July of this year)And they have tryed to suck her back into these Daerborn AA meeting as a mean's for future provacation by association) but since the victim found out about GangStalking on June 9th of this year at a library on the internet and when she learned that this was Literally GangStalking Tactic's she has closed all direct and indirect communication with them in every form.
   See Nxt Pst
   10/12/2009 8:21:42 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:Now recently the perpetraor's made anonther boo boo in their vanity and both time's it was caught on tape, the perptrator's know these boo boo's were caught on tape,and they are aware thiese tape recorderrs are not keept in her back pack but tied to her clothing right know she has 3 in her possesion) So they will have to come up with a way to get ahold of this proof: but here's a important fact she stopped communicating with people who were involved with this(That will be included in The Timeline on Face Book)in July of this year)And they have tryed to suck her back into these Daerborn AA meeting as a mean's for future provacation by association) but since the victim found out about GangStalking on June 9th of this year at a library on the internet and when she learned that this was Literally GangStalking Tactic's she has closed all direct and indirect communication with them in every form.See Nxt Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   :So how will they get ahold of this proof -they cannot steal it at hospital's she runs' to like they did within the last 2 week's:So their pretty reassured that since they have tryed to suck her back into AA for their provacation purposes that since this hasnt worked at all and that she wont run to the hospital again she's very sure they will either use her present living situation as a reson to either petition her to steal it and probably by know contain her long term,they may use a staged incident so the police have a reason to ask her for her ID so they can run a check and arrest her for a theft they crimminaly solicited her into in july after they ruined her finacially for that month:This tactice will also be used to contain her into place's like Jail or Shelter's weir then the Gang Stalkers associate themselve's into it's population for future provacation.Which they have done before
   See Nxt Pst
   10/12/2009 8:30:24 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's::So how will they get ahold of this proof -they cannot steal it at hospital's she runs' to like they did within the last 2 week's:So their pretty reassured that since they have tryed to suck her back into AA for their provacation purposes that since this hasnt worked at all and that she wont run to the hospital again she's very sure they will either use her present living situation as a reson to either petition her to steal it and probably by know contain her long term,they may use a staged incident so the police have a reason to ask her for her ID so they can run a check and arrest her for a theft they crimminaly solicited her into in july after they ruined her finacially for that month:This tactice will also be used to contain her into place's like Jail or Shelter's weir then the Gang Stalkers associate themselve's into it's population for future provacation.Which they have done before See Nxt Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   see their are 2 distinct previous event's that the perpetrator's brought about thru Their Crimminal solicitation of Torture thru provacation by and including Association that resulting in the victim having to steal so she wouldnt end up in their direct control:Which will be througoughly explained in The Timeline of torture once it hit's social Platform's on Facebook one theft was in Ann Arbor that involved a Laptop and the other was directly Crimminally Solicited by Staff at HFCC in Dearborn thru a fabricated lie they told the victim she needed money for a scholol loan to unfreeze a hold on her account they told her it whould have to be taken care of in 2 day's:Know the perpetrator's totally isolated bthis woman from any type's of healthy relationship's over the year's except for 1 who has adided and abbeded them so many time's it cannot be counted "Mac Arthur Street Resident's"
   See Nxt Pst
   10/12/2009 9:24:53 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:see their are 2 distinct previous event's that the perpetrator's brought about thru Their Crimminal solicitation of Torture thru provacation by and including Association that resulting in the victim having to steal so she wouldnt end up in their direct control:Which will be througoughly explained in The Timeline of torture once it hit's social Platform's on Facebook one theft was in Ann Arbor that involved a Laptop and the other was directly Crimminally Solicited by Staff at HFCC in Dearborn thru a fabricated lie they told the victim she needed money for a scholol loan to unfreeze a hold on her account they told her it whould have to be taken care of in 2 day's:Know the perpetrator's totally isolated bthis woman from any type's of healthy relationship's over the year's except for 1 who has adided and abbeded them so many time's it cannot be counted "Mac Arthur Street Resident's"See Nxt Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   So what they did here was isolate her except in 1 relationship "Mac Arthur Street Resident's who just recntly moved in which the victim belive's this was done because of 2 reason's they belive she has prooof connecting them and because they solicited her to steal from them to catch in on video so they could at least use this as a association tactic's(Associate themselve's to previous event';s trap her to get her to nsteal ffrom them then use them to emotionally rape the victim in by video taping the theft:
   This would be done for future provacation to furthur the crinmminal solicitaion of torture thru provacation by association.
   Then steal her eveidence or alter it or erase it:then make her go either to jail or wrap her up in probaction cost's to use as a tool of provacation by association because this whould provoke major emtional state's in any one knowing that these people were part of it
   See next Pst
   10/12/2009 9:29:34 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:So what they did here was isolate her except in 1 relationship "Mac Arthur Street Resident's who just recntly moved in which the victim belive's this was done because of 2 reason's they belive she has prooof connecting them and because they solicited her to steal from them to catch in on video so they could at least use this as a association tactic's(Associate themselve's to previous event';s trap her to get her to nsteal ffrom them then use them to emotionally rape the victim in by video taping the theft:This would be done for future provacation to furthur the crinmminal solicitaion of torture thru provacation by association.Then steal her eveidence or alter it or erase it:then make her go either to jail or wrap her up in probaction cost's to use as a tool of provacation by association because this whould provoke major emtional state's in any one knowing that these people were part of itSee next Pst theghostc
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   Learning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:
   It's a matter now of beat the clock the victim's been to the ACLU her timeline is being tweeked to include event's that recently happened they know exactly were she's at in all of these preperation's thru GangStalking Tactic's which include Cybgerstalking,Renting Adjacent apartment next to their victim's"Direct Converstaion Tactic's, Mail Theft and delayment of mail "Her Social Security check they have done numerous time's,to situate the victim to County Service's wheir staged event's and witnesses are inserted and staff cosighn's their objective's See Community Iffiltration in GangStalking Tactic's:The Dearborn height's police had 7 police car's cruise by patrol car's pass her within 15 secound's of time Thev Dearborn Fire Department are Huge player's in this huge,They have used people in Jail's and Hospital's before to threaten her and harrass her:
   Their trying to isolate her now for these tactic's
   Next Pst
   10/12/2009 9:40:08 p.m. EDTLearning Disabled Woman Tortured in Dearborn Mi/Dear Fellow Taxpayer's:It's a matter now of beat the clock the victim's been to the ACLU her timeline is being tweeked to include event's that recently happened they know exactly were she's at in all of these preperation's thru GangStalking Tactic's which include Cybgerstalking,Renting Adjacent apartment next to their victim's"Direct Converstaion Tactic's, Mail Theft and delayment of mail "Her Social Security check they have done numerous time's,to situate the victim to County Service's wheir staged event's and witnesses are inserted and staff cosighn's their objective's See Community Iffiltration in GangStalking Tactic's:The Dearborn height's police had 7 police car's cruise by patrol car's pass her within 15 secound's of time Thev Dearborn Fire Department are Huge player's in this huge,They have used people in Jail's and Hospital's before to threaten her and harrass her:Their trying to isolate her now for these tactic'sNext Pst theghostc
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5. Seattle Says:
   Nov 8th, 2009 at 3:52pm

   Why not vote for Nader. he is the only one making any sense.

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