WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2011. A welcome bill to narrow an overbroad Patriot Act provision was introduced Thursday in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR). The House approved legislation early Thursday extending three problematic provisions of the Patriot Act, including the provision addressed in Sen. Wyden’s bill, through May 27.
The bill will narrow the Patriot Act’s section 215, which allows law enforcement to obtain “any tangible thing,” including library and bookstore records. As the law…
