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The Intercept
January 4, 2018
We often engaged in gallows humor about what it was going to be like for me once I went to jail. ...... Barred by his editors from working on the NSA story, he was instead assigned to cover the debate in Congress over the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. But Lichtblau knew that the debate over how to strikeÃÂ ...
Truthdig
October 30, 2017
11, 2001, the 1,100 page Patriot Act was dropped on congressional legislators, who were required to vote on it the next day. The Patriot Act added provisions to the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that not only expanded the federal government's wiretapping and surveillance powers but outlawed the funding ofÃÂ ...
NPR
October 2, 2017
The Patriot Act defines domestic terrorism as an attempt to "intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." So far, law enforcement officials say they don'tÃÂ ...
NPR
August 14, 2017
The Patriot Act does define domestic terrorism, and under this designation, the Justice Department has broad powers to investigate, said Neal Katyal, a Georgetown University law professor who served as former President Barack Obama's acting solicitor general and as the national security adviser to theÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
July 25, 2017
When future historians look back on American governance during the early decades of the twenty-first century, they will have many tragic and troublesome episodes to dwell on: the hanging chads of Palm Beach County, the invasion of Iraq, the passage of the Patriot Act, the Citizens United ruling, theÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
March 7, 2017
Since 2001, because of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and other expansions to counterterrorism authorities and programs, it has become easier for the government to use information collected for intelligence purposes, with or without a warrant, to support criminal prosecutions against any American. Typically, thisÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
January 12, 2017
might have done more to diffuse the antiwar movement than the phone surveillance clauses embedded in the Patriot Act. Why take to the streets when Stewart and Colbert are on ... There's also a darker and more profound humor in history's most powerful empire being ruled by Biff from Back to the Future.
NPR
June 2, 2015
Fully 61 percent of Americans said they approve of renewing the Patriot Act's provisions to allow for continued collection of phone data, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. But, just months ago, a Pew Research Center surveyÃÂ ...
Screen Rant
December 31, 1999
Speedy was a recurring character in Teen Titans and appeared in the Justice League Unlimited episode called “Patriot Act.” Speedy was voiced by the same ... King of the Hill was originally promoted as being a kids show, which was a bad move, as the dry humor of King of the Hill wasn't really made withÃÂ ...
Fort Morgan Times
November 7, 2017
Smile a little: Holy Humor - There was a very gracious lady who was mailing ... PATRIOT Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, ...
The New Yorker
October 14, 2017
But it has also served as an expression of humor and hope. ... his votes against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, and his desire to break up the ...
Daily Herald
October 11, 2017
Tensions and humor appear between absence and presence, ... of Iraq, the Patriot Act, environmental disasters, and other consequences of ...
NPR
October 2, 2017
The Patriot Act defines domestic terrorism as an attempt to "intimidate ... The Patriot Act's definition gives the Justice Department broad authority ...
NPR
August 14, 2017
The Patriot Act does define domestic terrorism, and under this designation, the Justice Department has broad powers to investigate, said Neal ...
The New Yorker
July 25, 2017
... the passage of the Patriot Act, the Citizens United ruling, the Republican-controlled Senate's refusal to grant Supreme Court nominee Merrick ...
The New Yorker
March 7, 2017
Since 2001, because of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and other expansions to counterterrorism authorities and programs, it has become easier for the ...
Jacobin magazine
January 12, 2017
... the phone surveillance clauses embedded in the Patriot Act. Why take ... Obviously, it's not humor but organizing that can bring Trump down.
Salon
September 8, 2017
... Eric tries — with increasingly less success — to use gallows humor to ..... to repercussions from the 2001 Patriot Act, and accounts of familiesÃÂ ...
American Council on Science and Health
September 1, 2017
Since the Patriot Act has been in force they've taken on the idea that ... material palatable for people in a nonthreatening, often humorous way.
Bleeding Cool News
August 28, 2017
... Davos to show this side, that he has a sense of humor about him. .... and the banker establishment, and kept renewing the Patriot Act withoutÃÂ ...
NPR
August 14, 2017
The Patriot Act does define domestic terrorism, and under this designation, the Justice Department has broad powers to investigate, said NealÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
July 25, 2017
... the passage of the Patriot Act, the Citizens United ruling, the Republican-controlled Senate's refusal to grant Supreme Court nominee MerrickÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
July 25, 2017
... the passage of the Patriot Act, the Citizens United ruling, the Republican-controlled Senate's refusal to grant Supreme Court nominee MerrickÃÂ ...
WEEI.com
July 24, 2017
And we thought that was kind of humorous because that's basically Dan Shaughnessy stock in trade being .... Patriot Act yet but at all book club.
Media Matters for America
July 21, 2017
I thought Nola's post was wrapped in some fairly good humor, not a .... President Obama voted for the Patriot Act against 127 democrats, and heÃÂ ...
Capital & Conflict
July 13, 2017
We have a better sense of humor and better air conditioning. ... Thanks largely to the Patriot Act, civil asset forfeiture laws, the Foreign AccountÃÂ ...
Patriot Post
May 26, 2017
In this debate, then-Senator Barack Obama was clearly against the Patriot Act and the tools the Bush White House had used to defend ourÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
March 14, 2017
He championed reform of the Patriot Act after the revelations by Edward Snowden about the N.S.A.'s bulk collection of metadata. He pushed forÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
March 7, 2017
Since 2001, because of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and other expansions to counterterrorism authorities and programs, it has become easier for theÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
March 7, 2017
Since 2001, because of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and other expansions to counterterrorism authorities and programs, it has become easier for theÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
February 18, 2017
More significant, some Republicans didn't like Hayden's firm resistance to the privacy encroachments of the Patriot Act when she was head ofÃÂ ...
The Creators Project
January 29, 2017
When times seem dark, people often turn to humor as a coping .... civil liberties represented by the recent US Patriot Act, which was passed byÃÂ ...
The Creators Project
January 29, 2017
When times seem dark, people often turn to humor as a coping .... civil liberties represented by the recent US Patriot Act, which was passed byÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
January 12, 2017
might have done more to diffuse the antiwar movement than the phone surveillance clauses embedded in the Patriot Act. Why take to theÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
December 12, 2016
The Patriot Act allows the N.S.A. to obtain phone records and the like if .... Roy explains, mysteriously, “The jokes, the humor, and repartee thatÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
November 3, 2016
Artist celebrates Patriot Act's anniversary by handing out "Official Air ... a somewhat humorous way of driving home the notion that our focus onÃÂ ...
Hyperallergic
October 31, 2016
On Anniversary of the Patriot Act, Artist Passes Out Pocket Knives at the ... a somewhat humorous way of driving home the notion that our focusÃÂ ...
The Creators Project
October 16, 2016
The innate humor of toilet talk fuses with the supposed prowess of American leadership—or in this case, the lack thereof—creating an inversionÃÂ ...
The Know
December 31, 1999
... with a green plastic solider as he clutches a copy of the Patriot Act. ... Bush cackling with cracked teeth, while others have elements of humor.
Los Angeles Times
March 10, 2017
Sitting recently in his office in a converted bank across from a suburban strip mall, Isa Parada methodically thumbed through scripture as he recalled the contrasting moments of his first month leading one of the city's newest and most unusual houses ...
WEEI.com
January 31, 2017
Humor me with this'll exercise up. If you had to rank the patriots offensive players after Tom Brady because he's racing number one and I would you how would you or like percent one and I breed gadget EG.
PJ Media
January 20, 2017
... idiotic locker room humor is worse than bombing civilians, or hypocritically refusing to pardon people for marijuana use after admitting to marijuana use.
Idaho Statesman (blog)
January 19, 2017
Miller, whose Treasure Valley show is billed as "a blend of humor, politics and conservative outlook," has been at this for a long time in multiple markets.
WEEI.com
January 17, 2017
He kind of insinuated that the league favors the Patriot Act which would do before game back a definite link to the Steelers put on finding a way of taking care of business during a regular with a big and it's always read that Steelers Atlantic and we ...
The International Examiner
January 12, 2017
In "100 Chinese Silences" (Les Figues Press), poet Timothy Yu uses his wicked humor to take on stereotypes of Asians in the media, Hollywood, popular culture and literature and skewers the Western representation of China and the Chinese.
Jacobin magazine
January 12, 2017
might have done more to diffuse the antiwar movement than the phone surveillance clauses embedded in the Patriot Act. Why take to the streets when Stewart and Colbert are on the case?
Truthdig
December 16, 2016
... Planet 4 NOT embracing Snowden's genius & passion 4 the truth; 3) Shred the Executive Order wherein Obama gifted 2 all Presidents, after Dubyah, lifetime Security Detail, 4 the rest of their fkn lives, Paid 4 by the U $ Taxpayers; 4) Apologize 4 ...
The Hundreds (blog)
December 15, 2016
There is a harsh critical aspect to my work, and a lot of humor, but I'm quite sincere about it. To be productive, and initiate any change, I think the high-horsedness that the position of irony puts you in can be offputting .... Where the PATRIOT Act ...
The International Examiner
December 9, 2016
In "100 Chinese Silences" (Les Figues Press), poet Timothy Yu uses his wicked humor to take on stereotypes of Asians in the media, Hollywood, popular culture and literature and skewers the Western representation of China and the Chinese.
CoinJournal (blog)
November 10, 2016
The images on TV of campaign staff trying to keep a brave face while everything collapses around them start out humorous, but end up feeling tragic.
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