Posted on 02/28/2010 7:36:12 AM PST by 198ml
With virtually zero debate - or media attention - President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension for what many considered the most crucial and controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act. The provisions, set to expire Sunday without the signature of Obama, include extensions to allow:
-1) "roving" wiretaps, permitting surveillance on multiple phones and e-mail addresses.
-2) court-approved seizures of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Betcha there’s a reason other than ‘National Security’.
The former Dem president (William ‘Bubba’ Clinton) just sold out national security to the highest bidder.
The sitting Dem president will call it one thing and keep our eyes on one hand .... while his other hand stealthily takes something away.
Where is the liberal press??
You mean the same liberl press who was horrified over Bush if he had a $200 billion dollar budget deficit in a year yet are quite comfortable with Obama running up a yearly $1.5 trillion dollar budget deficit?
Hopefully they are soon to be in the unemployment line.
How’s that hopey changey thing doing for you liberals? Miss him yet?
Nice to see him do the right thing for a change.
Why does this act have to be renewed? Should be permanent.
Apparently he is such a war criminal (according to lefty historical perspectives). what a shocker!
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