House Fails To Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers 284
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. (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, welco...oh wait.
Re:Read it and weep: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:*cough* (Score:1, Funny)
So I guess you could call this an...
<Sunglasses>
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
FTFY.
Re:good job Republicans! (Score:4, Funny)
Something about stopped clocks...
Erudite comment (Score:3, Funny)
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. (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
Yay, no big government in my life, uh, until... (Score:2, Funny)
Small government for me, big government for you!
Re:Hmm. (Score:3, Funny)