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Losing a War, Winning a Police State
• by Nat Parry (Consortium News)The new [Intelligence Agencies] arrest powers follow similar authority granted to the U.S. Secret Service. In the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2005, the Secret Service was granted the same power in identical language.