Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flicker Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has officially introduced legislation to repeal the infamous USA PATRIOT Act, a cornerstone of post-9/11 surveillance expansion that many constitutional conservatives have long blasted as an all-out assault on civil liberties. Dubbed the “American Privacy Restoration Act,” the bill aims to undo the sweeping surveillance powers granted to the federal government under the original 2001 legislation, which turned American citizens into perpetual suspects in their own country. “I introduced the “American Privacy Restoration Act” to FULLY REPEAL the Patriot Act and strip rogue intelligence officers of their extraordinary mass surveillance powers. Since the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9/11, intelligence agency officials have used their mass surveillance tools to settle personal scores, interfere…
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