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New Hampshire Senator john Sununu is co-sponsoring legislation that he says would shore up civil liberties protections under the Patriot Act.

Congress passed the law six weeks after the September 11TH attacks.

Since then critics have grown increasingly concerned about the new surveillance powers the law gives the government.

Senator Sununu says the bill he's supporting would put new checks on those powers.

But he says it would not erode the government's ability to fight terrorism.

NHPR's Washington Correspondent Judith Smelser reports.