Monday, March 1, 2010

Sections of the USA PATRIOT Act extended for one year

In another "time running out" situation, some sections in the USA PATRIOT Act, including the infamous section 215, were recently extended for one year. Here are a few sites with more detailed info (some of which are not particularly happy about the extension):

http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4458
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/congress-reauthorizes-overbroad-patriot-act-provisions
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/epic-fail-congress-usa-patriot-act-renewed-without