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Article: Civil Liberties: Campaign Casualty
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 11, 1996
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If Bill Clinton's presidency ends next January, what will be
his legacy? A solid economy? The restoration of democracy in Haiti?
Let me give the president an area to consider. He can fairly claim
that under his presidency the civil liberties of Americans were
diminished.
That, of course, is a claim Clinton will not choose to make.
Nevertheless, he has either sponsored or approved laws that have
vastly diminished habeas corpus, widened the use of wiretaps and put
such a restrictive censorship astride the Internet that a
three-judge appeals panel heaved it out as the garbage it really is.
The president promptly reaffirmed his love for the legislation and
said the government would appeal.
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