Funny How None Of The Bills About Extending The Patriot Act Seem To Kill Off The Pieces So Regularly Abused
from the actually,-not-that-funny dept
We've already discussed how it appears that Congress is set to extend the Patriot Act with little debate yet again, despite the growing evidence of rather massive abuses of the law by law enforcement officials, with little to no evidence that the law has actually helped. As it stands now, in the Senate there are apparently three competing versions of the extension, and not a single proposal that would actually cut off the highly controversial sections that allow for spying on Americans with little to no oversight.The three Senate bills kick off with one from Senator Patrick Leahy, which would extend the various provisions until the end of 2013, but would also include a tiny bit more oversight.
Meanwhile, over in the House, the new leadership is simply trying to rush through an entirely new bill that will just push off any discussion until next year.
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Filed Under: chuck grassley, dianne feinstein, laws, patrick leahy, patriot act, review
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Extend 2 years w/o additional oversight
Extend indefinitely w/o additional oversight
Postpone discussion for 1 year
Our legislators sure are creative
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"PPL wont start fighting back until they are starving & dying."
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Why should we worry about the US when there are clearly more fucked up countries we do not live in to worry about.
STFU and go home.
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Why would they want to remove the parts that give them the most control?
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