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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.

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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.
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