Civil liberties

Patriot Act's Wiretapping, FISA Provisions Quietly Come Up For Renewal

Rachel Slajda | January 25, 2011, 8:48AM

At the end of next month, two of the Patriot Act's controversial provisions -- one authorizing "roving" wiretapping and one allowing the government to pull all sorts of records and electronic communications from U.S. citizens -- will expire.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has already introduced legislation that would simply extend the provisions for one more year.

That would essentially be a repeat of what happened a year ago, after the provisions expired in December 2009. There was a bit of a fight from civil liberties advocates, but the measures were renewed for another year at the end of last February.

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Topics: Civil liberties, Patriot Act, Surveillance