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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says | Danger Room | Wired.com

There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says | Danger Room | Wired.com: But that’s not what Udall sees. He warned in a Tuesday statement about the government’s “unfettered” access to bulk citizen data, like “a cellphone company’s phone records.” In a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, Udall urged Congress to restrict the Patriot Act’s business-records seizures to “terrorism investigations” — something the ostensible counterterrorism measure has never required in its nearly 10-year existence.