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April 22, 2015 09:06 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EoJx1Mg7N8w/mcconnell-introduces-bill-to-extend-nsa-surveillance
McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance
jriding sends word that the majority leader of the U.S. Senate has introduced a bill that would extend the surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act until 2020: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act. The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government's spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It puts McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the bill’s co-sponsor, squarely on the side of advocates of the National Security Agency’s continued ability to collect millions of Americans’ phone records each day in the hunt for clues of terrorist activity.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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