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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 28 March 2014 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)14. There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says By Spencer Ackerman
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/
You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says its 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 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 dragnets for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.
Were getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says, Wyden told Danger Room in an interview in his Senate office. When youve got that kind of a gap, youre going to have a problem on your hands.
What exactly does Wyden mean by that? As a member of the intelligence committee, he laments that he cant precisely explain without disclosing classified information. But one component of the Patriot Act in particular gives him immense pause: the so-called business-records provision, which empowers the FBI to get businesses, medical offices, banks and other organizations to turn over any tangible things it deems relevant to a security investigation...
You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says its 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 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 dragnets for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.
Were getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says, Wyden told Danger Room in an interview in his Senate office. When youve got that kind of a gap, youre going to have a problem on your hands.
What exactly does Wyden mean by that? As a member of the intelligence committee, he laments that he cant precisely explain without disclosing classified information. But one component of the Patriot Act in particular gives him immense pause: the so-called business-records provision, which empowers the FBI to get businesses, medical offices, banks and other organizations to turn over any tangible things it deems relevant to a security investigation...
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