PATRIOT Act Extension Compromise

Lock up your privacy and civil liberties, folks, for the House and Senate have settled on a compromise PATRIOT Act extension. This baby includes lovely features like a 4-year-extension on "roving wiretaps", continues to allow the goverment to investigate people who are not actually suspected of any wrongdoing, and keeps those Orwellian permanent gag orders.

My boy Russ Feingold is calling it a turd and is threatening a filibuster to block its passage.

The 2005 USA PATRIOT Act extension: "I can't tell you how much I like it! Seriously. My gag order forbids it!"

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