House, Senate Reach Deal on Patriot Act

AP Is Reporting House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement today to extend the USA Patriot Act, the government’s premier anti-terrorism law, before it expires at the end of the month. But a Democratic senator threatened a filibuster to block the compromise. Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., announced that the negotiating committee had reached an agreement that would extend for four years two of the Patriot Act’s most controversial provisions authorizing roving wiretaps and permitting secret warrants for books, records and other items from businesses, hospitals and organizations such as libraries. Those provisions would expire in four years unless Congress acted on them again.

December 9, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. birdie says:
    December 9, 2005 at 8:54 am

    the new Police State
    Senator Leahy got it right when he said “Taking away our rights does not make us safer.”

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