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House Democrats have slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – voting near-unanimously for SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program.
A THREE-MONTH REAUTHORIZATION OF THE NOTORIOUS PATRIOT ACT was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling measures needed to avert yet another government shutdown with a continuation of the wildly-intrusive surveillance powers passed after the 9/11 terror attacks.
Democrats voted almost unanimously for it, granting the far-reaching surveillance
3 months!? What can or would or will, happen within the next 3 months?