The Baggers joined the Democrats in opposing it.
The Patriot Act bill would have renewed the authority for court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones. Also addressed was Section 215, the so-called library records provision, which gives the FBI court-approved access to “any tangible thing” relevant to a terrorism investigation.
The third deals with the “lone-wolf” provision of a 2004 anti-terror law that permits secret intelligence surveillance of non-U.S. people not known to be affiliated with a specific terror organization.
I suppose there are lots of things to say and think about this. Like “the intra-party battle in the GOP is going to tear them apart”, and “the baggers might be wrong about everything else, but they’re right about this”. Just for example…
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