House Fails To Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers

schwit1 writes "The House failed to extend three key expiring provisions of the Patriot Act on Tuesday, elements granting the government broad and nearly unchecked surveillance power on its own public. The failure of the bill, sponsored by Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis), for the time being is likely to give airtime to competing measures in the Senate that would place limited checks on the act's broad surveillance powers. The White House, meanwhile, said it wanted the expiring measures extended through 2013."

Hmm.

[arun84h]

I, for one, welco...oh wait.

Re:Read it and weep:

[lul_wat]

Also seeing as I'm about to get modded down .. I just watched Canadian Bacon for the first time, a film from 1995. In one scene the US President is receiving ideas about what should replace the Cold War. Someone suggests Terrorism and he laughs it off saying that no one would fall for it.

Re:*cough*

[bertoelcon]

So I guess you could call this an...

<Sunglasses>

...Epic Fail.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

FTFY.

Re:good job Republicans!

[Doug Neal]

Something about stopped clocks...

Erudite comment

[nickovs]

Normally I try to only post astute, informative and insightful (and karma-whoring comments), but in this case all I have to say is:
"Woo-whoo! Excellent!".

Re:Good.

[fishexe]

If the Stanford Prison Experiment [prisonexp.org] has taught one and only one thing is that given power without oversight always leads to abuse and corruption.

No, it didn't teach that. It taught that it might -- it's just one instance.

What are you saying, that a sample size of one isn't enough to go on when drawing universal generalizations? Preposterous!

Re:Who is Roblimo

[Jello B.]

could you please tell the other editors to post better

Yay, no big government in my life, uh, until...

[unassimilatible]

my employer is mean to me when I post derogatory things about him on Facebook. Then I want my Big Government Mommy to come in and save me!

Small government for me, big government for you!

Re:Hmm.

[JonahsDad]

I'd like to thank everyone else's congressmen (and congresswomen) for not passing my congressman's bill. I try to vote him out of office every two years, but I always fail.