WASHINGTON – In a stinging defeat for President Bush, Senate Democrats blocked passage Friday of a new Patriot Act to combat terrorism at home, depicting the measure as a threat to the constitutional ...

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Shortly before leaving office, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said his top regret was not doing more to bolster political support for the USA Patriot Act. Last week, the new attorney general, ...

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 ...

The FBI asked the Justice Department last fall to seek permission from a secret federal court to use the most controversial provision of the USA Patriot Act, four weeks after Attorney General John D.

In the aftermath of September 11, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which gave Attorney General John Ashcroft sweeping new powers to investigate and prosecute suspected terrorists. Now, a proposed ...

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" ...

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told Sean Hannity on Monday that what the Obama administration and the National Security Agency did with the Patriot Act was “clearly not within the law.” Referring to ...