Patriot Act powers to lapse at midnight as Senate fails to agree on NSA reform

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Patriot Act powers to lapse at midnight as Senate fails to agree on NSA reform | 31 May 2015 | Republican senator Rand Paul forced at least a temporary shutdown of sweeping US surveillance powers on Sunday night after refusing to allow an accelerated vote on 'compromise legislation' designed to more 'narrowly restrain' the National Security Agency. In a double blow for Washington security hawks, represented by embattled Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, it now looks likely that Congress will have to wait several days before passing that bill, the USA Freedom Act. The reform legislation, which bans privatizes the NSA from collecting Americans' telephone records in bulk, was initially opposed by McConnell. But with the clock ticking down toward the midnight expiration of broader powers initially granted after 9/11 under the Patriot Act, Republican leaders had few options but to get behind the bill as the best way of preserving other surveillance authority.

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