Bloggers, TV, Go Nuts Over Misleading ‘Patriot Act’ Arrest Claim

It’s the false TV news report heard ’round the world. Raleigh, North Carolina’s WRAL-5 reported last week that a 16-year-old bomb hoax suspect was hauled out of his mother’s home by federal agents, and is now being held without any legal rights on the authority of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, which “supercedes the Constitution.”

Source – Threat Level

Note: even though this site did not publish the WRAL story when it appeared, I am posting Threat Level’s article because so many other sites did “run with it.” — Dissent. .

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