Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has introduced a one-page bill to repeal the controversial Patriot Act, which was passed on the heels of the horrific Sept. 11, 2001 ...

I voted against the Patriot Act because of the cost it was asking the American people to pay in the form of their civil rights, particularly their privacy rights and especially for people of color.

Maybe it was just a coincidence that a federal judge in New York struck down an important provision of the USA Patriot Act on the very ... effectively a form of secrecy per se, has no place ...

The Patriot Act greatly expanded the government's surveillance powers. But some opponents worry that could curtail civil liberties. Read an analysis of the act's most controversial provisions.

Adam Burke has a retrospective of an era that tested American civil liberties on the fourth anniversary of President Bush's signing of the Patriot Act ... It was a rational form of profiling ...

Currently, two of the PATRIOT Act’s key provisions are up for reauthorization by Congress. As the deadline draws nearer, it is important to re-engage on the importance of the PATRIOT Act and ...

Notably, the Patriot Act significantly expanded the use of so-called national security letters, a form of subpoena that law enforcement can issue to companies without court oversight. Facebook has ...

Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller urged lawmakers to renew the anti-terror Patriot ...