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Show 1 Friday, Mar. 3,2006 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu Patriot Act renewal approved by Senate Today's Issue Dedications Today is Friday, March 3, 2006. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Fa'aa'e Lata, a junior majoring in mathematics from Redlands, California. New privacy protections added Clarifications And Corrections The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. National Briefs Democrats renew calls for independent Katrina Probe WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers from both parties said Thursday a newly disclosed videotape of a preKatrina briefing for President Bush and top administration officials raises new questions about government response to the storm that flooded New Orleans and killed more than 1,300 people. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said the video "makes it perfectly clear once again that this disaster was not out of the blue or unforeseeable. It was not only predictable, it was actually predicted. That's what made the failures in response - at the local, state and federal level - all the more outrageous." The video, obtained by The Associated Press, "confirms what we have suspected all along," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, charging that Bush administration officials have "systematically misled the American people." Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California renewed their calls for an independent commission to investigate the federal response to the hurricane. The House and Senate have conducted separate investigations of the federal response, and the White House did its own investigation. House Democrats for the most part refused to participate in the House probe, insisting since last fall that an independent commission should be created to handle the probe. "I try not to get angry, but I am plenty frustrated that we're not getting answers"fromthe administration, said Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., one of the few Democrats who participated in the House investigation. "If nobody was hiding anything, why did the committee not get the documents it requested? We need to use subpoenas if necessary to get those documents." A spokesman for Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., who headed the House investigation, said there was nothing new in the tape and accompanying transcripts. "Top federal, state and local officials failed to process and act on information at their disposal," said David Marin, the spokesman. "We already knew that." WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday gave its blessing to the renewal of the USA Patriot Act after adding new privacy protections designed to strike a better balance between civil liberties and the government's power to root out terrorists. The 89-10 vote marked a bright spot in President Bush's troubled second term as his approval ratings dipped over the war in Iraq and his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. Renewing the act, Bush and congressional Republicans said, was key to preventing more terror attacks in the United States. Bush applauded the Senate for overcoming "partisan attempts to block its passage." The House was expected to approve the two-bill package next week and send it to the president, who would sign it before 16 provisions expire March 10. "This bill will allow our law enforcement officials to continue to use the same tools against terrorists that are already used against drug dealers and other criminals, while safeguarding the civil liberties of the American people," Bush said in a statement from India. Critics held their ground. A December filibuster led by Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., and AP Photo/Manuel Bake Ceneta SEN. CONRAD BURNS, R-MONT., speaks as Sen. Jon Kyi, R-Ariz., left, and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.( right, stand by following the passage of the revised Patriot Act, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 2,2006, in Washington. By a vote of 89-to-ten, the Senate is sending a revised USA Patriot Act to the president for his signature. joined by several libertarian-leaning Republicans, forced the Bush administration to agree to modest new curbs on the government's power to probe library, bank and other records. Feingold insisted those new protections are cosmetic. "Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper," he said. "They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both - and we can if we try - we have failed." Some lawmakers who voted for the package acknowledged deep reservations about the power it would grant to any president. NJ judge sentences killer nurse 11 life terms in prison for murdering patients SOMERVILLE, NJ. (AP) - The nurse who admitted to killing as many as 40 patients was ordered imprisoned for the rest of his life Thursday after relatives of his victims confronted him at a hearing, calling him "the monster" and blaming him for wrecking their lives. Charles Cullen received 11 consecutive life terms in prison, making him ineligible for parole for nearly 400 years. "You betrayed the ancient foundations of the healing professions," said Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong. Cullen, 46, stood quietly as the judge admonished him for murdering 22 people in New Jersey and attempting to kill three others. Cullen has claimed to have killed up to 40 people during ' a nursing career that began in 1987He will be sentenced later for seven murders and three attempted murders in Pennsylvania. The sentence was handed down after relatives of his victims recalled fond memories of their loved ones, but also talked about how the killings and their aftermath ruined marriages, careers and report cards. "My heart, it aches for my son," said Mary Strenko, whose 21year-old son was Charles Cullen's youngest victim. "I walk around with a hole in my heart." Thursday's hearing was the first chance for victims' relatives to confront Cullen in court, and about 60 appeared. Many were also hoping to hear Cullen explain why he committed the crimes, but he did not. "He will always be known as the monster," Dolores Stasienko, 59, of Kitty Hawk, N.C., said as she held a photo of her father, Giacomino "Jack" Toto, 89, who was murdered in 2003. Strenko's son was killed the same year. Cullen, wearing a black sweat- er over a collared shirt, sat quietly during much of the hearing. As relatives of victims spoke, he kept his eyes closed, frustrating some of the relatives. "In case he forgot what my mother looked like, look into my eyes now," Richard J. Stoecker told Cullen. His mother was murdered in 2003. Cullen has admitted to using lethal doses of medications most often the heart medication digoxin - to kill patients. He told authorities when he was arrested in December 2003 that he killed "very sick" patients, but some of the patients were not critically ill. Cullen pleaded guilty as part of an unusual arrangement in which he also agreed to help investigators solve his killings, which stretched across his employment at 10 medical facilities. 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