Patriot Act Extended Six Months

Posted on December 21, 2005

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Senators reach agreement to extend current Patriot Act for six months.

The Patriot Act has been extended by six months.

Earlier in the month there was this news:

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - Congressional negotiators have reached agreement to extend key provisions of the nation’s most important anti-terrorism law — but one senator plans to try to block it.

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But recently, with Republicans unable to secure the 60 votes needed to break a Democratic filibuster the Patriot Act seemed to be doomed. From the NYSun

In remarks during an hour-long White House press conference, Mr. Bush said it is “inexcusable” for senators to ask the administration to monitor and capture terrorists while at the same time preventing it from carrying out the effort by blocking what he described as a “vital tool.”

It will be interesting to see how those that block this vital tool in the GWOT spin their stance when their constituents are the target of an attack that could have been prevented if they weren’t grandstanding for the media.

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In a surprise to this writer, Senator Charles Schumer, (Dumbass NY) had this to say regarding actually extending the Patriot Act:

“This is the right thing to do for the country, to let the Patriot Act lapse would have been a dereliction of duty.”

From brietbart

A House-Senate compromise extending 16 expiring provisions of the Patriot Act has been stuck in the Senate for the past week because of a Democratic-led filibuster.

More as this develops

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2 Responses to “Patriot Act Extended Six Months”

Kevin Mark Smith on December 21st, 2005 9:45 pm

Nice compromise. I hope that the Republicans will take the criticism of the Act’s weaknesses seriously this time around.
Orewan on December 22nd, 2005 3:40 pm

Bush never saw the need to follow the Patriot Act’s canons anyway. With Bush’s clear religious belief that federal law does not apply to the executive branch, so long as any actions made by the president fall into his own sense of morality, his fight to extend the Patriot Act is precisely to score “political points.”