Tomorrow, Congress will vote on a bill renewing USA-PATRIOT. The bill has no reforms, and the vote will be taken with no open debate.
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Don't want it passed? Inform your employees.
Oh, and if that's not scary enough, three leading Republicans want to make portions of the Patriot Act permanent.
Source one. Source two.
Don't want it passed? Inform your employees.
Oh, and if that's not scary enough, three leading Republicans want to make portions of the Patriot Act permanent.
Three Republican Senate leaders introduced a measure late Thursday that would permanently extend three key provisions of the Patriot Act, rather than let them expire not quite three years from now, as an alternative Democratic proposal would do.
The Republicans — Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader; Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the top GOP member on the Intelligence Committee — described the changes as vital to national security.
“These three provisions are essential tools for our counterterrorism agents in the field. The threat of terrorism isn’t going away so we must provide our agents with the tools they need to get the job done,” Grassley said in a prepared statement. “Given that terrorist threats, including those from self-radicalized individuals, continue to evolve, we must ensure that our law enforcement agents are not burdened with new restrictions on existing authorities. We can’t afford to go back to a pre-9/11 mindset and tie the hands of our agents in the field.”
The shoe. It fits.