International Journal on Criminology Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2015 | Page 25

Terrorism(s), Intelligence, and Freedoms: France’s Patriot Act Light?
Parliament has an opportunity to take charge of this, and the Constitutional
Council can give its opinion one way or another. There is room for the bill to advance.
The document’s rapporteurs and the government are too astute to dispense with
a more balanced but equally effective process.
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