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	9th Circuit Judge Strikes Down Piece of Patriot Act The 9th Circuit Court has struck down provisions of the Patriot Act describing the banning of certain types of support for terrorist groups as "so vague that it risked running afoul of the First Amendment."


	Artists Subpoenaed in USA Patriot Act Case Common Dreams "The subpoenas are the latest installment in a bizarre investigation in which members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force have mistaken an art project for a biological weapons laboratory."


	Erroneous Fingerprint Evidence Leads to Detention of Innocent American New York Times on the Web The case is "likely to lead to calls for a broad examination of both the laboratory work by the FBI and the increasingly aggressive Justice Department's use of the federal material witness statute to detain people it says may have information about a crime."


	Ashcroft Defends DOJ's Handling of Detainees CNN.com Ashcroft wants to broaden the Patriot Act to expand the "material support" definition, death penalities and pretrial detentions.

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	Patriot Act II Provisions Slipped into Other Bills ... "Rather than abandoning the legislation [Patriot Act II] altogether, the department has been extracting provisions and having sympathetic lawmakers slip them one by one into new bills to pass the legislation piecemeal." The Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003 (HR 3179) includes four sections that were originally included in Patriot Act II.


	Section by Section Analysis of Patriot Act II Review of the problems posed by the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, also known as Patriot Act II, from the ACLU.


	Computer student on trial for aiding Muslim web sites (k File) A Saudi computer student is on trial in Boise, Idaho, charged under the Patriot Act for aiding terrorists by maintaining Muslim web sites. The Federal District court in Los Angeles court has overturned that provision in the Patriot Act as "overly broad and vague."

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