House Fails To Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday February 8, 2011 @03:50PM from the patriotism-versus-freedom-chapter-85,672 dept.

schwit1 writes "The House failed to extend three key expiring provisions of the Patriot Act on Tuesday, elements granting the government broad and nearly unchecked surveillance power on its own public. The failure of the bill, sponsored by Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis), for the time being is likely to give airtime to competing measures in the Senate that would place limited checks on the act's broad surveillance powers. The White House, meanwhile, said it wanted the expiring measures extended through 2013."

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Re:good job Republicans! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2011-02-08 16:36 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Which is strange. All this time we've been hearing about how Obama is an islamofascist communist sleeper agent, and then they line up to extend his nearly unchecked powers until the end of the term.

Either they are very confident about Palin/Beck 2012, or they just can't get enough of the taste of jackboots, no matter who is wearing them...