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Secret Patriot Act [message #1777] Thu, 26 May 2011 18:49
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You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on
its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says itÆs worse than you know.

Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the
surveillance law as early as Thursday. Wyden (D-Oregon) says that powers they
grant the government on their face, the government applies a far broader legal
interpretation ù an interpretation that the government has conveniently
classified, so it cannot be publicly assessed or challenged. But one prominent
Patriot-watcher asserts that the secret interpretation empowers the government
to deploy ödragnetsö for massive amounts of information on private citizens;
the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.

ôWeÆre getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what
the American government secretly thinks the law says,ö Wyden told Danger Room
in an interview in his Senate office. ôWhen youÆve got that kind of a gap,
youÆre going to have a problem on your hands.ö

Full article: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/



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