Patriot Act Renewal Vexes US Congress - NSA Spying Expires

摘要

The publication of this issue was delayed by a day in order to see what action the US Senate would take on the renewal of the Patriot Act. They took no action and the Act expired. It will probably be renewed, if only in part, early next month, June) Two years ago this month, Edward Snowden began to reveal the secret surveillance programs operating that were spying on most citizens in the United States and others throughout the world. Many of these programs were being run by the US National Security Agency (NSA), with its vast arrays of very powerful computers.