{"id":5172,"date":"2011-02-08T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T20:29:18","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5172","title":{"rendered":"House rejects PATRIOT Act provisions expiring Feb. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On MainJustice.com tonight: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainjustice.com\/2011\/02\/08\/house-rejects-renewal-of-patriot-act-provisions\/\">House Rejects Patriot Act Provisions<\/a>, by Fahima Haque:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a measure to extend through December three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the national security legislation passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans \u2013 both concerned about civil liberties  \u2013 came together to defeat the proposed extension on a 277-to-148 vote. Twenty-six Republicans voted with 122 Democrats against the measure, while 67 Democrats and 210 Republicans supported it. Ten members did not vote.<\/p>\n<p>Without congressional action, the three controversial provisions will expire on Feb. 28. The provisions are \u201croving wiretaps\u201d that follow a terrorism suspect\u2019s changing use of phone and Internet records, a \u201clone wolf\u201d provision allowing law enforcement to track a target that doesn\u2019t have an affiliation with a specific group, and so-called Section 215 orders allowing investigators to freely gather a suspect\u2019s business records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}