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No, the PATRIOT Act Didn't Really Expire

• LewRockwell

My client, who I'll call "Debby," wasn't correct in saying that the entire PATRIOT Act expired. It's true that a small section of the law dealing with the bulk collection of phone records expired November 30. But I can't blame her for believing this entire ill-conceived law no longer exists.

Over the last few months, apologists for the military-industrial-surveillance complex that dominates US politics have warned that America is at grave risk without the bulk records collection program. No less an authority than CIA director John Brennan testified before Congress that the US has been placed at risk by "political grandstanding and crusading for ideological causes."

You'd think that this comment signified a total dismantling of America's incredibly sophisticated surveillance infrastructure. But nothing could be further from the truth.


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