Saturday, February 26, 2011

Obama Signs Temporary Extension of Patriot Act

The law extends two areas of the 2001 act. One provision allows law enforcement officials to set roving wiretaps to monitor multiple communication devices. The other allows them to ask a special court for access to business and library records that could be relevant to a terrorist threat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505562.html