With minutes to spare before midnight EDT, Barack Obama signed a four-year extension of the Patriot Act from Paris, extending post-9/11 powers-- which (for the last ten years) have allowed the government to secretly search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of alleged terrorists.
Hours after the Senate and House passed the law (through votes taken in rapid succession), Obama transmitted a digital signature, finalizing the renewal, ensuring that there would be no interruption in the erosion of our constitutional rights. During congressional debates, legislators rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties would not be abused.
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