PATRIOT Act Sunset Still Intact

Now if we can just get some of the provisions repealed. I can't believe I am agreeing with something Senator Schumer said. Ugh. But at least I admit it when the Left says something right.

Senate Deal Kills Effort to Extend Antiterror Act

Senate Republicans backed down today from an effort to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers in a 2001 act, clearing the way for passage of a less divisive measure that would still expand the government's ability to spy on foreign terrorist suspects in the United States. . . .

Under current law, federal officials must establish a link to a foreign terrorist group in order to secure or request a secret warrant . . . .

"There's a delicate balance between liberty and security," said Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who was one of the authors of the so-called "lone wolf" counterterrorism measure. "It's a seesaw, and that's the debate that we're seeing now in Congress. . . ."

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