News: Oregon's Patriot Act ruling appealed

Administration to defend use of secret searches, wiretaps

BY WILLIAM MCCALLThe Associated Press
October 11, 2007

PORTLAND -- The Bush administration is appealing a ruling by a federal judge in Oregon striking down key portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled last month that the act cannot be used to authorize secret searches and wiretapping to gather criminal evidence -- instead of intelligence gathering -- without violating the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. >>continue