Since being signed into law in November 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act has given the government the capability of spying on its citizens in a fashion that is far beyond constitutional, or even what its original author intended. In 2013, we learned that the scale of these transgressions is even greater than we had known. […]
In a last-ditch post-midterm Hail Mary, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to get just one more thing done before handing over to the Republicans. That thing, apparently – the single thing he thinks we as Americans most need – is a renewal of the PATRIOT Act provision allowing mass phone data collection, bound […]