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Congress Makes Deal To Renew Patriot Act For 4 Years

Posted by timothy on from the bipartisan-nomenclature dept.

airfoobar writes "A four-year extension to the highly controversial Patriot Act is set to be rushed through in the coming week." Techdirt has its usual trenchant critique. I hope it's not unpatriotic to raise doubts about "one of the critical tools the intelligence community has to keep America safe."

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  1. Re:Four More Years by hsjserver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For Christ's sake, you can still order chicken wings and and buy guns can't you? Where is this fucking tyranny? The law is used to monitor people with suspected terrorist ties! Come back to me when you're forced into a camp or the President sends the national guard in to shoot protesters. Treating shit like this as 'tyranny' only denigrates the people who actually live in tyrannical societies.