{"id":7395,"date":"2015-04-18T07:10:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2015-04-18T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T12:10:57","slug":"congress-is-attempting-to-reauthorize-key-patriot-act-provisions-by-sneaking-it-into-usa-freedom-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7395","title":{"rendered":"Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into \u201cUSA Freedom Act\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/04\/17\/congress-is-attempting-to-reauthorize-key-patriot-act-provisions-by-sneaking-it-into-usa-freedom-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into \u201cUSA Freedom Act\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Yet with Section 215\u2019s lifespan now stretching to a matter of weeks, supporters of broad surveillance powers have yet to put forth a bill for their preservation \u2013\u00a0evidence, opponents believe, that the votes for reauthorization do not exist, particularly not in the House of Representatives.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>More likely, according to a multiple Hill sources, is a different option under consideration: making the major NSA reform bill of the last Congress the point of departure for reauthorizing 215 in the current one.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The bill would not abridge NSA collection of Americans\u2019 international communications, nor prevent the NSA or the FBI from\u00a0warrantlessly searching through its troves\u00a0of them for Americans\u2019 identifying information. Nor would it restrict a constellation of surveillance efforts authorized by a\u00a0Reagan-era executive order. Even a recently disclosed bulk domestic phone records collection dragnet by the Drug Enforcement Agency would be untouched.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe should be demanding more reforms than the intelligence agencies are gladly willing to offer us,\u201d said David Segal of the activist group Demand Progress.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/apr\/15\/nsa-fbi-surveillance-patriot-action-section-215-expiration\">NSA and FBI Fight to Retain Spy Powers as Surveillance Law Nears Expiration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 1, 2015 is a very important day for American civil liberties and the Constitution. On that day, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, one of the most egregious pieces of legislation passed in U.S.\u00a0history, will expire automatically without reauthorization from Congress. Naturally, this is causing a panic attack within the heart of the NSA, FBI and all the\u00a0authoritarian lackey legislators\u00a0in Washington D.C. With the chances of a clean reauthorization next to none, these crafty \u201crepresentatives\u201d and their puppeteers need to figure out a way to sneak it into another piece of legislation. What better way to do this than making it a part of something that ostensibly appears to be reining in surveillance powers. Enter the USA Freedom Act.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into \u201cUSA Freedom Act\u201d Yet with Section 215\u2019s lifespan now stretching to a matter of weeks, supporters of broad surveillance powers have yet to put forth a bill for their preservation \u2013\u00a0evidence, opponents believe, that the votes for reauthorization do not exist, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1543,301,338,483,551,577,613,652,765,1796,4810],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-fbi","tag-freedom","tag-liberty-2","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-patriot-act","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-us-congress","tag-usa-freedom-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7396,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}