Update #1: With no modification and little debate, Democrats send Patriot Act extension to Obama , Kucinch Jeers. (Raw Story Link)
If the corrupted one-party politcal system we have right now is not abundantly clear to you yet, I hope it will be soon.
source: MSNBC Feb 25, 2010
Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the primary U.S counterterrorism law, stymied by Senate Republicans who argued the changes would weaken terror investigations.
The proposed protections were cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Dashing the hopes of liberals, the Senate Wednesday night instead passed — by voice vote without debate — a one-year extension of key parts of the USA Patriot Act that would have expired on Sunday.
Thrown away were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the government’s authority to spy on Americans and seize their records.
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