Anonymous Fear-Mongering About the Patriot Act from the White House and NYT

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Several of the most extremistprovisions of the 2001 Patriot Act are going to expire on June 1 unless Congress reauthorizes them in some form. Obama officials such as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper andnew Attorney General Loretta Lynch have been engaged in rank fear-mongeringto coerce renewal, warning that we’ll all be “less safe” if these provisions areallowed to “sunset” as originally intended, whileinvoking classic Cheneyite rhetoric by saying Patriot Act op...