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Handy Comparison Chart Tracks Proposals to Amend Patriot Act

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November 16, 2009
Originally appeared as Handy Comparison Chart Tracks Proposals to Amend Patriot Act in Wired
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There’s no doubt that the legislation that emerges from this process and goes to the president will have additional civil liberties protections.

Greg Nojeim - Senior Counsel and Director of CDT's Project on Freedom, Security and Technology, CDT

Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and Senate.

The chart compares proposed amendments (.pdf) to National Security Letters (NSLs) and the so-called “lone wolf” provisions of the Patriot Act. The proposals have only been passed by the judiciary committees, and face further amendments before they hit the full House and Senate for votes.

According to Gregory Nojeim, CDT’s director of project on freedom, security and technology, although neither of the current proposals goes far enough in fixing all of the problems that civil libertarians find in the Patriot Act, they do show improvements.

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