28 Jul 2011 For months, two Senators have screamed bloody murder that the government holds a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to a whole different law giving the feds massive domestic surveillance powers.Now, a measure by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO) would force the U.S. intelligence chief, and by extension the entire intelligence community, to admit that they went too far in their Patriot Act interpretations... The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence meets Thursday to prepare the annual bill authorizing the U.S. intelligence agency's operations.During that "mark-up" process, Wyden and Udall will ask their colleagues to include a measure compelling the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to produce a "detailed assessment of the problems posed by the reliance of government agencies"
on "interpretations of domestic surveillance authorities that are inconsistent with the understanding of such authorities by the public."
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