Freedom

Senate panel considers beefing up the Patriot Act

WASHINGTON -- Debate over the Patriot Act heated up Tuesday as the Senate Intelligence Committee prepared a bill to renew the act's powers and add broader authority for the FBI to search private and business records without a judge's approval. Valerie Caproni, general counsel for the FBI, told the committee that administrative subpoenas - often used by regulatory agencies to secure records - should be a tool that terrorism investigators could use "when time is of the essence." Posted by Editor at May 25, 2005 08:42 AM