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Did you catch that, you simpering lefty Bush haters? Obama re-upped the PATRIOT ACT! While you were SLEEPING!

1) [KARL] "roving" wiretaps, permitting surveillance on multiple phones and e-mail addresses.

2) court-approved seizures of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.

3) surveillance on "lone-wolf" foreign nationals, who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group. [AND your DRUG DEALERS~!]

There's more! Obama signs a new cybersecurity bill, giving him NEW EMERGENCY POWERS!

Rockefeller and Snowe's forthcoming bill would establish a host of heretofore absent cybersecurity prevention and response measures, an aide close to the process said. The bill will "significantly [raise] the profile of cybersecurity within the federal government," while incentivizing private companies to do the same, according to the aide.

Additionally, it will "promote public awareness" of Internet security issues, while outlining key protections of Americans' civil liberties on the Web, the aide continued.

Privacy groups are nonetheless likely to take some umbrage at Rockefeller and Snowe's latest effort, an early draft of which leaked late last year.

When early reports predicted the cybersecurity measure would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency," online privacy groups said they felt that would endow the White House with overly ambiguous and far-reaching powers to regulate the Internet.

CAN YOU DIG IT?

Enjoy~!

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