Senate signs off on USA Patriot Act Opponents welcome new restrictions on government eavesdropping

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: Eric Lichtblau | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

08-01-2005

The U.S. Senate has voted unanimously to make permanent nearly all the main provisions of the law known as the USA Patriot Act, after Republican leaders agreed to include additional civil rights safeguards and to forestall any expansion of the government's counterterrorism powers. The House already passed a bill of its own that would also extend the law's surveillance and law enforcement powers, which the Bush administration consi...

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