Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:31:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
To: senator@kennedy.senate.gov
Subject: support S.1709, the Security and Freedom Ensured Act

Dear Senator Kennedy

I hope that you'll use your position on the Judiciary Committee to support
S.1709, the Security and Freedom Ensured Act.  S.1709 would undo some of the
damage to civil liberties caused by your vote in favour of the USA PATRIOT Act
two years ago.  In particular, S.1709 would limit roving wiretaps and secret
searches, restore some privacy to records maintained by libraries and
booksellers, and prevent extensive monitoring of library computer users.  It
would also apply a sunset clause to the the USA PATRIOT Act's provision for
searches of private records without judicial review.

Again, I hope that you'll make every effort to move S.1709 through the
Judiciary Committee intact, and that you may consider co-sponsoring S.1709.

Matthew Belmonte
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