Even business
Apparently, even business groups (you know, those evil people that Republicans kowtow to?) are splitting with the administration over the PATRIOT Act:
The business groups complained to Congress on Wednesday that the Patriot Act makes it too easy for the government to get confidential business records. That put them at odds with one of President Bush’s top priorities – the unfettered extension of the law passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In the first organized criticism of the act from the business sector, these groups endorsed amendments that would require investigators to say how the information they seek is linked to individual suspected terrorists or spies, and would allow businesses to challenge the requests in courts and to speak publicly about those requests.
The difference between this and other non-business complaints is, of course, the fact they might listen.
