Section 215 Of The Patriot Act Has Expired

May 31, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

As expected, Congress was not able to come to a consensus regarding renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act, which expired about 30 minutes ago. The three provisions – bulk data collection of metadata of all phones calls in the U.S., roving wiretap warrants (warrants on people, rather than a particular phone number) and the […]

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FBI Admits No Major Terrorism Cases Solved Using Section 215

May 22, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

The DoJ IG just released an assessment of the FBI’s use of the mass data collection powers of section 215 of The Patriot Act, renewal of which is currently being debated in Congress and the report says that no case developments resulted from the use of Section 215 orders. The Inspector General said: “As with our […]

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