Yes! Score one for sanity!

From CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/29/secret.searches.ap/index.html
"U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero struck down a provision of the Patriot Act that authorizes the FBI to force Internet service providers and phone companies to turn over certain customer records. The companies are then barred from ever disclosing the search took place."

"The judge said the law violates the Fourth Amendment because it bars or deters any judicial challenge to the government searches, and violates the First Amendment because of its permanent ban on disclosure is a prior restraint on speech."

Remember those new rules that allow the government to do secret searches that can't be challenged in court? Let's see... what did they call it? Oh yeah, "The Patriot Act"! That way, anyone who noticed it violated the Bill of Rights could be called "Unpatriotic" (a term applied to anybody who disagrees with this fascist administration). I have found that I am perfectly comfortable with loving my country and hating what Bush & Co. is doing to it.

This will be a minor setback for Ashcroft, who seem to want to "have something" on everybody. Just what the ruling will do to slow this administration's mad rush to "InfoRape" us all, we will just have to wait and see. It's a small, but important, step back from the brink of Civil War II.