WASHINGTON -- A deal preserving the expiring portions of the terror-fighting USA Patriot Act may be in the works, Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter said Wednesday. Specter said he held secret ...

Reacting to a San Francisco federal judge’s ruling that the FBI’s secretive requests for customer information under provisions of the PATRIOT Act is “unconstitutional,” Fox News judicial analyst and ...

For many liberal Democrats, the USA Patriot Act and the state secrets privilege represent twin controversial monuments to the post-Sept. 11 secrecy of the Bush era. The Patriot Act, which Congress ...

Civil liberties and the need of the government to fight terrorism were at issue Tuesday night at Carroll College, as more than 100 citizens showed up for a talk on a proposed resolution that backers ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Likely Republican presidential contenders Jeb Bush and Chris Christie on Friday heartily endorsed the Patriot Act and the permission it gives the government to collect phone ...

The Patriot Act, for those who have been hunkered down for the last four years, was the hastily approved post-9/11 legislation so odious in its respect for constitutional freedoms that the city of ...

In response to the events of September 11th, 2001, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, which is designed to strengthen the ability of the federal government to gather and share information that may ...

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The Patriot Act enabled federal agents to use National Security Letters, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and information from the Central Intelligence Agency to crack the "Lackawanna Six" ...

The Justice Department won’t say whether provisions of the Patriot Act were used to investigate and charge Colleen LaRose. But the FBI and U.S. prosecutors who charged the 46-year-old woman from ...