Despite the expiration of three provisions in the USA Patriot Act on Monday – largely due to the revelations of former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden – the White House maintains that Snowden should face prosecution.
Snowden revealed the controversial NSA program that collected Americans’ phone records in bulk, a practice that was declared illegal by a federal appeals court in May. Not only was the program justified on shaky grounds, but the Patriot Act provision governing the collection also expired on Monday morning when the Senate failed to renew the law in full or pass a reform bill.
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