| | Doug Bandow on Clinton-Gore & Civil Liberties on National Review Online |
 | | The administration did, however, use the Oklahoma City bombing as an excuse to propose sweeping new federal powers such as restricting the right of habeas corpus and expanding use of wiretaps even though proponents were unable to point to a single example where civil-liberties protections prevented the police from deterring terrorism. |
 | | Clinton, Gore and Company, who constituted the most wiretap-friendly administration in U.S. history, essentially sought to eliminate the requirement of a warrant for searches from the Fourth Amendment. |
 | | Marijuana arrests were up 50 percent over Bush-41 years and the Clinton-Gore administration consistently sought to frustrate state voters who approved measures to allow the desperately ill victims of AIDS and cancer, in particular from using marijuana to ease their nausea and pain. |
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