Senate advances USA Freedom Act, but vote on bill likely won't come for several days, causing temporary shutdown of some Patriot Act powers
For Now — Senate to Vote on USA FREEDOM Act on Tuesday Eric Geller / The Daily Dot : Patriot Act spy powers to expire as Rand Paul blocks USA Freedom Act vote Reuters : Senate lets NSA spy program lapse, at least for now Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch : The Senate Advances NSA Surveillance Reform Legislation As Deadline Approaches Politico : GOP senators tear into Paul Shane Harris / The Daily Beast : Zombie Patriot Act Will Keep U.S. Spying—Even if the Original Dies Julian Hattem / The Hill : Senate advances NSA reform — but program to lapse at midnight Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times : NSA bulk collection of phone data stops; Senate stalls as deadline passes Daniel Cooper / Engadget : US limits the NSA's reach ahead of sweeping reform David Kravets / Ars Technica : Senate impasse: NSA spy tactics—including phone records collection—expire Erin Kelly / USA Today : Here's what happens when Patriot Act provisions expire tonight Scott Shackford / Hit & Run : Rand Paul blasts PATRIOT Act Surveillance on Senate Floor During Last Minute Debate (UPDATE … Arlette Saenz / ABC News : NSA Domestic Surveillance Program Expires After Senate Fails to Reach Deal Christopher Dupres / Neowin : Section 215 of Patriot Act allowed by Senate to expire Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : The NSA is no longer authorized to spy on US citizens — for now Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : NSA Patriot Act Surveillance Powers Temporarily Suspended Aaron Mamiit / Tech Times : NSA Spy Program Expires At Least Temporarily: What Are The Implications? Reform Government Surveillance : RGS Statement on the Senate's vote to proceed on the USA Freedom Act Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet : Sections of USA Patriot Act hours away from expiration New America : Midnight Expiration of USA PATRIOT Act Adds New Pressure for Surveillance Reform Politico : McConnell moves to swallow USA Freedom Act Stephen Dinan / Washington Times : Patriot Act expiration looms with Senate stalemate on USA Freedom Act Timothy B. Lee / Vox : Rand Paul is forcing three Patriot Act powers to expire. Here's what that means. Dustin Volz / National Journal : McConnell Caves on Reform Bill as Patriot Act Deadline Looms Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Three PATRIOT Act Provisions Likely To Sunset, Briefly, But USA Freedom Will Pass Shortly Agence France-Presse : No US Senate deal, spy provisions expire at midnight: lawmakers Steven Dennis / Roll Call : Senate Advances Patriot Act Overhaul, but Too Late to Foil Rand Paul (Updated) Kim Zetter / Wired : Parts of Patriot Act Expire Tonight After Senate Fails to Pass Reform Associated Press : Surveillance powers lapse with no deal in Senate, likely to be renewed within days Associated Press : Surveillance powers set to lapse with no deal in Senate Tweets: Fight for the Future / @fightfortheftr : WARNING: Sections of the #PatriotAct expire at midnight, putting all of us in extreme danger of actually having basic constitutional rights. Matt Blaze / @mattblaze : In just 5 minutes, analysts at NSA will finally disconnect their firehose of intrusive metadata and use a different firehose instead. Matt Sullivan / @sullduggery : Bush-era power to expire as US rolls back NSA power for 1st time in generation @RobertsDan @attackerman @Bencjacobs http://www.theguardian.com/... Harold Itzkowitz / @harolditz : So one law with an Orwellian name, the #PatriotAct, will be replaced by another law with an Orwellian name, the USA FREEDOM Act. Dan Roberts / @robertsdan : 2 years on it felt quite a moment for team @guardian in the Senate tonight. Just wish Snowden could've been there too http://www.theguardian.com/... Julian Sanchez / @normative : At midnight, 2% of the Patriot Act sunsets & little of importance changes. More importantly, this week the Senate will pass USA Freedom. Jake Laperruque / @jakelaperruque : Appears McConnell will take extra time he's been given on #USAFreedomAct to make last ditch effort to weaken bill even w/ 215 authority gone Harley Geiger / @harleygeiger : Hearing that we will see amendments to #USAFreedomAct brought up tomorrow. Data retention notification by majority vote. Unclear what else. Micah Lee / @micahflee : If it weren't for whistleblower Edward Snowden, some of the worst parts of the Patriot Act that expired tonight would still be law Christopher Soghoian / @csoghoian : NSA can still engage in bulk surveillance of innocent foreigners. Sorry foreigners, I guess your privacy is just not as important as ours. Christopher Soghoian / @csoghoian : If only Congress could also, through inaction, rein in NSA surveillance conducted under Executive Order 12333.