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<h2>Congress Rejects PATRIOT Act Re-Write, Improvements Still Possible</h2><small>In <a title="View all posts in intellectual freedom" href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/intellectual-freedom/" rel="category tag"><font color="#333333">intellectual freedom</font></a>, <a title="View all posts in public policy" href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/public-policy/" rel="category tag"><font color="#333333">public policy</font></a> on December 7, 2009 at 8:41 am</small> 
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<p>On Friday the House and Senate both completed their mark ups of PATRIOT Act reauthorization bills. Here’s a quick update from the Center for Democracy and Technology:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cdt.org/policy/congress-rejects-patriot-act-re-write-modest-improvements-still-possible" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#990000">Congress Rejects PATRIOT Act Re-Write, but Modest Improvements Still Possible</font></strong></a></p>

<p>1)    House and Senate Committees Renew PATRIOT with Mostly Minor Changes<br>2)    The Risks of National Security Letters<br>3)    House Bill Offers More Significant Change to NSL Authority<br>4)    Obama Administration Uses Secret Briefings to Resist Strong Standards for FBI Investigations</p>

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