Politico: What happens if the PATRIOT Act expires?

Politico: What happens if the PATRIOT Act expires? by Alex Byers and Kate Tummarello:

Officials in Washington are warning of a future in which key surveillance provisions are allowed to lapse.

With the Senate’s failure to secure a deal to reform or extend the PATRIOT Act before leaving for the Memorial Day recess, the possibility has become more real that parts of key surveillance provisions could simply die.