Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Stop the renewal of the Bill of Rights-shredding provisions of the "PATRIOT Act" set to expire

The three provisions set to expire are the "roving wiretap" provision, which allows the government to conduct surveillance without specifying person or place being wiretapped; the "library records" provision that allows the government to collect "any tangible thing" during an investigation; and the "lone wolf" provision, which targets "non-US" persons unaffiliated with terrorists. 

It is time for Congress to let these Bill of Rights-shredding provisions of the "PATRIOT Act" expire.

The implementation of the national security state has created an expansive, inefficient, and secretive bureaucratic nightmare increasingly being targeted to spy on Americans, even based on anonymous information and political affiliation, all supposedly in the name of "keeping us safe."

Last year, The Washington Post series on "Top Secret America" exposed just how massive and unaccountable America's surveillance state has become.

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