The fight over the Patriot Act went through the holiday weekend and is continuing even now. There have been some successful efforts, including the USA Freedom Act, which protects privacy rights, passing the House with an overwhelming bipartisan majority and the unlikely alliance of Tea Party Patriots, the NAACP, and the ACLU, however Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been preventing the USA Freedom Act and pro-privacy amendments from even coming to a vote. If the Patriot Act is reauthorized as-is massive data collection on all citizens, including even those not accused of committing a crime, will be allowed to continue.
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