Feds plan to seek broader ability to hunt terrorists
Warrantless wiretaps, use of secret arrests are among ideas considered
Stripping citizenship from native-born Americans thought to have 
terrorist ties. Secret arrests. And, if the nation is ever attacked 
again, the ability to plant wiretaps without a warrant. These are 
among the proposals the government is eyeing as part of a sweeping 
new anti-terrorism bill. Justice Department lawyers have been 
secretly working for months on a sequel to the controversial USA 
Patriot Act, which was rushed through Congress in the scary weeks 
after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the 
Pentagon. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney 
General John Ashcroft cautioned that no specific follow-up bill had 
been devised but added, "It's in the country's interest that we think 
expansively." Ashcroft's directive to his army of lawyers: "Think 
outside the box but inside the Constitution" in crafting law 
enforcement tools to fight terrorism. Civil liberties groups worry 
that the war raging in Iraq and jitters about a retaliatory terrorist 
attack against Americans could pave the way for "Patriot Two."

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