Patriot Act II

"The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001, which will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information," reports the Center for Public Integrity.

While it has not been officially released, the draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 has been made public by CPI. The DSEA document is also available here, as an HTML file.

PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers covered this development on its program this week. The Washington Post reports on it, as well.

Kevin Moore has...umm...more on this.