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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:17PM (#30296447)
> Guarantee the Patriot Act, for example, does not get repealed.

The Patriot Act expired in 2020

Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by throwanem on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:06PM (#30296817)
Yeah, because it isn't needed any more.
Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by yucky on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:27PM (#30296523)
One of Trump's crowning (albeit accidental) achievements.
Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by TrispusAttucks on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:38PM (#30297044)
Accidental?

He spoke out against it publicly and even threatened to veto should it make it through Congress.

It was him speaking out against it (and the abuses of it by intelligence agencies) that discouraged both Democrats and Republicans from pushing it through.

Trump didn't like the IAs and they didn't like him.

Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by amcoastal on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:16AM (#30301062)
The Trump administration delivered a letter to Congress in August 2019 urging them to make permanent three surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act. The provisions included section 215, which enables domestic call-record collection as well as the collection of other types of business records.
Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by aksss on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:46PM (#30297097)
From Wiki - “On March 10, 2020, Jerry Nadler (D) proposed a bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and it was then approved by the majority of US House of Representatives after 152 Democrats joined the GOP in supporting the extension. The surveillance powers of the Patriot Act needed renewal by March 15, 2020, and after it expired, the U.S. Senate approved an amended version of the bill. After President Donald Trump threatened to veto the bill, the House of Representatives issued an indefinite postponement of the vote to pass the Senate version of the bill; as of December 2020, the Patriot Act remains expired.”
Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by jandrese on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:07AM (#30297658)
I still wonder if I should be happy or mad at Rep Nadler. On one hand he tried to reauthorize the Patriot Act, on the other because he tried to do it as a Democrat he guaranteed that Trump would never support it.