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On Patriot Act, Franken forgot the 4th, Klobuchar rhetoric careened

By Chris Steller | 10.12.09 | 10:52 am

Minnesotans disgusted by insipid Twins-Yankees TV commentators might find comic relief in civil libertarians’ online kibbitzing about U.S. Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, who last week voted to renew the Patriot Act without reforms in the Senate Judiciary…

Wikileaks, IT pro not ‘in any danger’ in Coleman leak, lawyer says

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.16.09 | 4:19 pm

Federal law leads the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s civil liberties director to believe that neither the IT consultant who found Norm Coleman’s donor database online nor the Web site that leaked it did anything illegal. Fodder for the argument: a similar case in California where authorities decided not to pursue charges when controversial conversations by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s were downloaded by political opponents.