Talk:Controversial invocations of the Patriot Act

message: I have reread the article and have removed several sections because they weren't relevant or were poorly sourced. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Large amount of text removed

message: I have done two things:
1. Removed the "outside the Act's scope" section as the section had the following:
:"The stated purpose of the Act is to "deter and punish American terrorists in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." One criticism of the Act is that "other purposes" often includes the detection and prosecution of non-terrorist alleged future crimes."
If the Act states that it is to be used for "other purposes", then by this definition it is not outside its own self-defined scope.
2. Removed the word "allegedly" from several section titles: if you are investigating something then obviously the crimes are only alleged. Otherwise, why would you need to investigate further?!? - Ta bu shi da yu 12:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of a section title, modification of others

message: In many articles on Wikipedia there is a claim that the Patriot Act was used to fire Federal Judges.  How?  The change that is references states that the Executive Branch can appoint an interim judge should a vacany appear while Congress is not in session.  It has nothing to do with firing judges.  Please, get the facts straight or reference something that has to do with firing judges, not appointing them. --Kainaw (talk) 01:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not judges, its United States Attorneys, sometimes called Federal District Attorneys, and they serve at the pleasure of the President and always have. I fixed the text in the article which was desperately wrong. See the article Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy. Please list all of the other articles that talk about "interim judges" and "firing judges" --those articles are absolutely wrong.  -- Yellowdesk 22:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Firing Judges

message: compare  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.237.244 (talk) 18:58, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: PATRIOT ACT vs ENABLING ACT

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