Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has introduced a one-page bill to repeal the controversial Patriot Act, which was passed on the heels of the horrific Sept. 11, 2001 ...

The techie from New York may be one of the few people to fight a request for information from the FBI that came in the form of a tool called a national security letter. The Patriot Act made it ...

The Patriot Act has been surrounded by a cloud of fear-mongering since it was reintroduced almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks and rushed through Congress, without any finding that the sweeping ...

Section 215 now—at least temporarily—reverts to its pre-Patriot Act form, which doesn’t permit any collection of financial or communications records, and requires the Government to provide ...

Rand Paul and the GOP’s libertarian wing over the USA Patriot Act and the power of government ... versus just shooting form the hip.” GOP leaders say they will push a straight extension ...

This week marks 10 years since the Patriot Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The ACLU is hosting a blog series that will address some of the sweeping changes to surveillance laws ...

Adam Burke has a retrospective of an era that tested American civil liberties on the fourth anniversary of President Bush's signing of the Patriot Act ... It was a rational form of profiling ...

At this point, there is no other legislation in the Senate to reauthorize the Patriot Act in its original form. “This is a carefully crafted compromise,” said Bijan Madhani, public policy and ...