Last Tuesday the U.S. House of Representatives failed to extend the life of three surveillance provisions in the Patriot Act, tools intelligence agencies say are necessary to public safety in the post-9/11 world.
Those provisions allowed the FBI to continue monitoring a subject's communications even when they move without having to get a new court order – roving wiretaps. Another allowed court-ordered access to “any tangible thing” deemed essential in an investigation, the “library records” provision while the third permitted secret surveillance of non-U.S. people not affiliated with a terrori...
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