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The PATRIOT act itself expired in March of 2020.
by opo 3y ago
The PATRIOT act itself expired in March of 2020.
- Tommstein 3y agoTIL. Unfortunate timing for what would have otherwise been front-page headline news, if not for the entire world as we otherwise knew it coming to a sudden crashing end.
- akira2501 3y agoIt really didn't, though. Parts of it have already been reauthorized through different acts that are still in effect. Point is, we didn't have a referendum, we didn't bolster our laws to prevent such a thing from happening again, and zero investigations of abuses of power have credibly been done in it's wake. "Letting it expire" is not some accomplishment other than kicking the can further down the road.