{"id":680676,"date":"2010-03-02T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/senate-extends-key-aspects-of-patriot-act-for-one-year\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T03:01:24","slug":"senate-extends-key-aspects-of-patriot-act-for-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680676","title":{"rendered":"Senate Extends Key Aspects Of Patriot Act For One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/US%2BSenate_1961_19638470_0_0_7019097_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Senate extends key aspects of Patriot Act for one year\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">The Senate has voted to temporarily extend several key provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the nation&#8217;s primary counterterrorism surveillance law. Lacking a filibuster-proof majority, Senate Democrats decided against adding new privacy protections to the provisions, which had been scheduled to expire at the end of February. <\/p>\n<p>The bill, which was approved on a voice vote with no debate, will extend for one year three important sections of the USA PATRIOT Act. <\/p>\n<p>If endorsed by the House, the legislation would continue to allow investigators to require third parties to provide them access to a suspect&#8217;s personal records without their knowledge. It would also enable the government to utilize roving wiretaps to monitor phone lines and internet accounts that a terrorism suspect may be using, according to <i>Main Justice<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, the bill would allow the government to track a suspect without advanced knowledge of the target&#8217;s affiliation with a foreign power or international terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic supporters of the extensions believe that they may protect the Obama administration from Republican criticism that they are too soft on terrorism, according to <i>MSNBC<\/i>. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19638470-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has voted to temporarily extend several key provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the nation&#8217;s primary counterterrorism surveillance law. Lacking a filibuster-proof majority, Senate Democrats decided against adding new privacy protections to the provisions, which had been scheduled to expire at the end of February. The bill, which was approved on a voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R4E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}