Hearing testimony on new FBI Patriot Act powers [US Senate Intelligence Comm.] News
Hearing testimony on new FBI Patriot Act powers [US Senate Intelligence Comm.]

Hearings on a Bill to Reauthorize Certain Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and for Other Purposes, US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, May 24, 2005 [including prepared testimony by the FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni asking for sweeping new powers to seize records from private citizens and businesses in terrorism investigations without first obtaining a judge's approval]. Read the full text of the hearing statements. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Eugene Debs sentenced for opposing US entry into WWI

On September 14, 1918, socialist and labor activist Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and opposing the entry of the United States into World War I.

Incarcerated in the Atlanta Penitentiary, he was still there when he ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 election, receiving 919,799 votes. He was pardoned by President Warren Harding in December 1921. Learn more about Eugene Debs on the website of the Debs Foundation.

Eugene Debs sentenced for opposing US entry into WWI

On September 14, 1918, socialist and labor activist Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and opposing the entry of the United States into World War I.

Incarcerated in the Atlanta Penitentiary, he was still there when he ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 election, receiving 919,799 votes. He was pardoned by President Warren Harding in December 1921. Learn more about Eugene Debs on the website of the Debs Foundation.