{"id":3920,"date":"2005-12-16T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2010-01-17T23:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T05:33:29","slug":"patriot-act-will-not-be-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/patriot-act-will-not-be-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot Act will not be extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Christmas indeed!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20051216\/ap_on_go_co\/patriot_act\" class=\"external external_icon\">In a stinging defeat for<br \/>\nPresident Bush, Senate Democrats blocked passage Friday of a new Patriot Act to combat terrorism at home, depicting the measure as a threat to the constitutional liberties of innocent Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can come together to give the government the tools it needs to fight terrorism and protect the rights and freedoms of innocent citizens,&#8221; said Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., arguing that provisions permitting government access to confidential personal data lacked safeguards to protect the innocent.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Much of the controversy involved powers granted to law enforcement agencies to gain access to a wealth of personal data, including library and medical records, in secret, as part of investigations into suspected terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also includes a four-year extension of the government&#8217;s ability to conduct roving wiretaps \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which may involve multiple phones \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and continues the authority to wiretap &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; terrorists who may operate on their own, without control from a foreign agent or power.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another provision, which applies to all criminal cases, gives the government 30 days to provide notice that it has carried out a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>During debate, several Democrats pointed to a New York Times report that Bush had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on individuals inside the United States without first securing permission from the courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/12\/16\/senate_rejects_exten.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">boingboing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Christmas indeed! WASHINGTON &#8211; In a stinging defeat for President Bush, Senate Democrats blocked passage Friday of a new Patriot Act to combat terrorism at home, depicting the measure as a threat to the constitutional liberties of innocent Americans. [&#8230;] &#8220;We can come together to give the government the tools it needs to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1881,33],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa","tag-patriot-act","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}