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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Last year, the Democrat-controlled Congress quietly slipped through a one-year extension to the PATRIOT Act, with little opposition which was later signed by President Obama.

This year, Congress intends to renew three controversial provisions of this Act, and due to legislation introduced by Representative Mike Rogers [MI-8] (H.R. 67) and Senator Patrick Leahy [VT] (S. 193), the pieces are in place to extend them for another year. On Thursday, February 3, at 10AM, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on Senator Leahy's bill.

The three provisions set to expire are the "roving wiretap" provision, which allows the government to conduct surveillance without specifying person or place being wiretapped; the "library records" provision that allows the government to collect "any tangible thing" during an investigation; and the "lone wolf" provision, which targets "non-US" persons unaffiliated with terrorists.

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I think this is crap. I was against the PATRIOT Act when it was first passed and I'm against it now.

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately by my experience of myself, "Screw you guys" is not itself enough to motivate something for very long. And while I'm dissatisfied with what everyone else offers I'm self-aware enough to know that my personal views are pretty much not that much a better option. It's a bastard because I'm too aware to know that and too ornery-er honest-to be a partisan hack.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

The test of any law is "If your worstenemy was the one enforcing it, Would you still approve?".

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's too commonsensical for most people to adopt, unfortunately. :-(.