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Sat Jan-28-06 12:02 AM
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Privacy moves to front burner

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FOCUS: PATRIOT ACT, SECRET WIRETAPS
By Jim Puzzanghera
Mercury News Washington Bureau

... Privacy will be center stage in Washington in coming weeks. Congress faces a Feb. 3 deadline to extend the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act, such as allowing investigators to secretly search people's homes. And Senate Judiciary Committee chair Arlen Specter, R-Pa., a leading skeptic of the legality of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance, has summoned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to a Feb. 6 hearing on the program ...

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