“The Patriot Act will expire tonight,” said US Senator Rand Paul after hours of ultimately fruitless debate on how to get the reform bill across the finish line. The US Senate failed to reach a deal Sunday, May 31, that would prevent key counterterror provisions from expiring at midnight, plunging US national security efforts into potential disarray amid persistent extremist threats. The Senate actually took the step of advancing bipartisan reform legislation that would end the controversial National Security Agency program which scoops up telephone data on millions of Americans with no connection to terrorism.
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