QUANTICO, Va. (Reuters) - President Bush on Wednesday urged Congress to "untie the hands" of law enforcement by passing new anti-terrorism measures to deny bail to terror suspects, expand the death penalty, and let investigators bypass grand juries to obtain subpoenas.
The initiative is a follow-up to hotly debated "USA Patriot Act" anti-terror legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, and drew fresh criticism that the administration was infringing civil liberties.
"The House and the Senate have a responsibility to act quickly on these matters. Untie the hands of our law enforcement officials so they can fight and win the war against terror," Bush said in a speech at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia, outside Washington.
Bush spoke on the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
He said the Patriot Act had helped fight terrorism but remaining "unreasonable obstacles to investigating and prosecuting terrorism" should be urgently addressed.
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