[Reily]

Same here I have read it also, in fact several times.
From what I can gather from it, is that it gathers and modernizes already existing legal authorities into one package. Some of those previously existing legal authorities have been in existence for as much as 60 years and have survived numerous constitutional legal tests.

To me it's much ado about nothing, anyone who is concerned about it either was unaware or didn't understand the preexisting laws (which address a rapidly disappearing analog communications world!) or is willfully unconcerned about national security for whatever personal or mischievous reason.

[Republican Wildcat]

Correct. It is nothing new. It just allows for investigative bodies to have the same power to go after terrorists as they already had for things like organized crime.

[takenoprisoner]

From what I can gather from it, is that it gathers and modernizes already existing legal authorities into one package. Some of those previously existing legal authorities have been in existence for as much as 60 years and have survived numerous constitutional legal tests.

Yepper, the unPatriot Act creates the DHS, putting all these into one LE package, with no holds barred. It also authorizes the TSA, operated under the auspices of the DHS, to fondle our wives, children, mothers, and grandmothers, at airports.

Some are okay with it. I'm not.