Re:Senator Bernie Sanders' Restore Our Privacy Act
by gregholmberg on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:41PM
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SB 1168 would amend FISA (1978) to require that the Attorney General provide specific, individual details when requesting a ruling from the FISC, and report back semi-annually on how effective the authorized actions were.
Naturally, it is doomed.
edit:Here is the entire text of the Patriot Act.
The ACLU has a detailed discussion of perceived flaws in Section 215 of the Patriot Act. FISA 1978 makes many additions to section 50, US Code that might conflict with the 4th Amendment.