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Title: Senate votes to renew anti-terrorism provisions
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Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011 ... congress-idUSTRE74P8QW20110526
Published: May 26, 2011
Author: staff
Post Date: 2011-05-26 20:10:44 by buckeroo
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Views: 4487
Comments: 15
The vote was 72-23. With the provisions set to expire at midnight on Thursday, the House of Representatives was expected to give swift final congressional approval to the Senate-passed bill. Democrats and some Republicans favored more protections for law-abiding citizens. But congressional leaders, racing the clock and possibly short on votes, agreed to a four-year, unaltered extension of the provisions to track suspected terrorists. President Barack Obama is traveling in Europe. White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said that he was prepared to use "the auto pen to sign" the bill quickly into law. The provisions empower law enforcement officials to get court approval to obtain "roving wiretaps" on suspected foreign agents with multiple modes of communications, track noncitizen "lone wolves" suspected of terrorism, and obtain certain business records. "Although the Patriot Act is not a perfect law, it provides our intelligence and law enforcement communities with crucial tools to keep America safe," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. "The raid that killed Osama bin Laden also yielded an enormous amount of new information that has spurred dozens of investigations yielding new leads every day," Reid said. "Without the Patriot Act, investigators would not have the tools they need to follow these new leads and disrupt terrorist plots," Reid said. The provisions are key parts of the Patriot Act, which was enacted after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. While backers say the provisions bolster U.S. security, critics say they could be abused and violate the rights of U.S. citizens. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a liberal Democrat, and Republican Senator Rand Paul, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, together offered steps to bolster oversight of the Patriot Act and increase civil-liberty protections. These proposed changes cleared the Judiciary Committee, but Leahy and Paul were unable to bring them up for a vote by the full Senate. Leahy said, "The extension of the Patriot Act provisions does not include a single improvement or reform, and includes not even a word that recognizes the importance of protecting the civil liberties and constitutional privacy rights of Americans."(Reuters) - The Senate passed a bill on Thursday to renew three expiring provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act, rejecting demands for additional safeguards of civil liberties.
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#1. To: All (#0)
I hope everyone can sleep tight tonight as the terrorists don't bite.
The 23 who dissented are real PATRIOTS. Do you have a list of who they are?
--President Obama Must Sign Bill Before Midnight To Avoid Expiration Reggie Love is lubing up the "auto pen". BOHICA
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Not yet. The voting record is normally processed a day later from senate.gov and other "official" websites like Thomas. But, the overwhelming votes cast ensure your safety. Do you feel more safe, now?
ROTFL.... perfect.
No, I feel more naked and potentially abused. I travel a lot for my business and have to deal with this a few times a month. Seriously, hats off to the TSA in Chicago. Relatively speaking, they are the best anywhere in the country. They are the most efficient and probably most secure. None of it is good, but the O'Hare TSA must have a good manager, which makes travelling as least tolerable.
Have you ever felt safe after the 2001 US Patriot Act was signed by GWBush?
NO
I want to understand your reasoning. BTW, I agree with you about these so-called anti-terrorism laws as they don't seem to do much but cause more fascist creep into America. But, what is your specific take on it?
Thanks for asking. My specific take is that there are a bunch of power hungry people in Congress who only care about getting reelected. So they pass "laws" which violate the ultimate law of the land -- the Constitution, and this case, the 4th amendment. They are not conspiratorial evil (secretly working for the Rothschilds). They are individually evil -- willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power. I believe that humans are selfish. This is why we can't have an absolute authority called government that has the power to lord over us. When individuals become selfish, their customers will go elsewhere. This is the system that works.
Here is an article from US Senator Wyden (D) whom voted for the US Patriot Act in 2001 and later extensions; it might interest you - Just as the Senate is about to approve a long-term reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act’s surveillance provisions, without any reforms, Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR] warns that the government is secretly using the provisions to justify surveillance activities that go beyond what we have been told. Danger Room: Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. But Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a mere fig leaf for a far broader legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that the government keeps to itself  entirely in secret. Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a “dragnet� for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently. “We’re getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says,� Wyden tells Danger Room in an interview in his Senate office. “When you’ve got that kind of a gap, you’re going to have a problem on your hands.� What exactly does Wyden mean by that? As a member of the intelligence committee, he laments that he can’t precisely explain without disclosing classified information. But one component of the Patriot Act in particular gives him immense pause: the so-called “business records provision,� which empowers the FBI to get businesses, medical offices, banks and other organizations to turn over any “tangible things� it deems relevant to a security investigation. This is pretty important, so I recommend you read the whole thing. Wyden proposed an amendment that would have made it harder for the government to justify bulk collection of information about citizens by requiring them to show that the information is relevant to a person who is subject to an authorized investigation. The current PATRIOT Act language only requires the government to show that the information they want to collect is relevant to an authorized investigation. That would seem to mean that the government could legally collect records of every person who borrows a certain book from a library, or everyone who has donated to Wikileaks, or any person who views a targeted website. Unfortunately, Wyden’s amendment will not get a vote because Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] has manipulated the Senate rules to push the reauthorization through in a way that allows no amendment votes and limits debate.
Wyden is a socialist northwest dumbshit. So, what's your point?
It appears a bit of "back-tracking" don't you think?
I always look forward. I don't "backtrack"
Let us take a double-take on your earlier post in #6: America NEVER required a TSA other than the Jewish guy that helped write the US Patriot Act in the first place. The guy I am talking about is Michael Chertoff, the DHS motherfucker that insisted on full body scanners in America. He is retired now has his own consulting the US government to buy more stuff. He IS a dual US citizen.
#2. To: buckeroo (#0)
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The vote was 72-23
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#3. To: buckeroo, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#0)
US House Votes 250-153 To Approve Patriot Act Extensions
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: jwpegler (#2)
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#5. To: hondo68 (#3)
Reggie Love is lubing up the "auto pen".
#6. To: buckeroo (#4)
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Do you feel more safe, now?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#7. To: jwpegler (#6)
#8. To: buckeroo (#7)
Have you ever felt safe after the 2001 US Patriot Act was signed by GWBush?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#9. To: jwpegler (#8)
#10. To: buckeroo (#9)
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#11. To: jwpegler (#10)
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Senator Warns PATRIOT Act is Worse Than You've Been Told May 26, 2011 - by Donny Shaw
#12. To: buckeroo (#11)
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#13. To: jwpegler (#12)
#14. To: buckeroo (#13)
It appears a bit of "back-tracking" don't you think?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#15. To: jwpegler (#14)
I always look forward. I don't "backtrack"
Seriously, hats off to the TSA in Chicago. Relatively speaking, they are the best anywhere in the country. They are the most efficient and probably most secure.
None of it is good, but the O'Hare TSA must have a good manager, which makes travelling as least tolerable.
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