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A sensible compromise has ended the Senate logjam over renewal of Patriot Act provisions.(This Week)(Brief article)

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* A sensible compromise has ended the Senate logjam over renewal of Patriot Act provisions. People who receive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders or FBI-issued national-security letters that demand that they turn over business records will be free to consult lawyers without first notifying the government. If they have been told not to disclose those court orders and letters to anyone but their lawyers, they will be free, after one year, to challenge that non-disclosure requirement. The compromise means that the improvements the Patriot Act made--including the end of the "wall" that prevented intelligence agents and criminal investigators from pooling threat information, ...

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