RATS!

Congressional leaders agree on four-year extension of PATRIOT Act


Tags: DICTATORSHIP

Congressional leaders agreed on Thursday to extend three expiring provisions of the controversial PATRIOT Act for four years.



Sources told the Associated Press that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner agreed to call for a vote to extend the provisions before May 27, when they are set to expire, with as little debate as possible.



The legislation would extend the "roving wiretap" provision, "lone wolf" measure and "business records" provision until June 1, 2015.



The three provisions allow law enforcement authorities to conduct surveillance without identifying the person or location to be wiretapped, permits surveillance of "non-US" persons for whatever reason, and authorizes law enforcement to gain access to "any tangible thing" during investigations.



Webmaster's Commentary:

The reason Reid and Boehner want to call for a vote "...with as little debate as possible..." has to do with the depth and breadth of how this legislation curtails civil liberties assured American citizens through the Constitution and Bill of Rights



You can read the bill in its entirety here:



.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.03162:





Please read the whole bill: if that doesn't get you furious at what this government has done, and has decided to continue to do to civil liberties in this country, I don't know what will.