law enforcement is more worried about other parts which they say leave them partially blind. so i m left looking for needles in a haystack where the needles are increasingly invisible to me. expired, roving wire taps which allow law enforcement to follow a terrorist and not just on one phone. if a suspect changes phones multiple times, the tracking continues. lone wolf tracking. investigators could track a suspect without a subpoena and now will have to go to court for each case. if i lose those tools, it is a huge problem. those tools are gone because of a political battle here on capitol hill. they should be reinstated later this week. between now and then, law enforcement says its job will be tougher. david kerley, abc news, capitol hill. a legal victory for religious expression in the workplace. a supreme court sided with a muslim woman who did not get hired by abercrombie and fitch after wearing a headscarf to the interview. they said it clashed with its
procedure thooblock the programs from moving forward. people here irn town think i m making a huge mistake. some of them i think secretly want there to be an attack on the united states so they can blame it on me. both of the last two presidents had argued for the necessity of the nsa program, as well as the necessity of the other two provisions that expired. one of which helped u.s. spies track lone wolf terror suspects. the other helped place roving wire taps on those who discard their cell phones frequently. these are parts of a fabric. none of these are silver bullets. that s one of the problems people like me have in explaining this to the american people. intelligence is fundamentally boring. it s just piece by piece, thread by thread. you re giving up threads. it may not make a difference for a while. then again, it might. the white house in a statement blamed republican
the records to identify the subscriber to the other numbers. that doesn t mean that person answered the phone. could be a family phone plan where everybody uses the same router. we got to listen in to mitch mcconnell on the floor right now speaking. with the house bill. so i would propose that we extend at least the lone wolf and the roving wire tap authorities while we continue to litigate the differing views on section 215. more specifically i would propose that we extend lone wolf and roving wire taps for up to two weeks. so mr. president, having said that i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of a bill which is at the desk to extend the expiring provisions related to lone wolf and roving wire taps for two weeks, and that the bill be read a third time and passed.
expire at midnight tonight. the most controversial provision allows the nsa to collect telephone records, internet records of millions of american citizens. bulk collection. the other two provisions deal with roving wire taps and surveillance of suspected lone wolf terrorists. supporters say these programs are vital to our national security. kentucky senator and republican presidential candidate rand paul has vowed to fight any extension of the current law, calling it an illegal spy program. he delivered a fiery speech on the senate floor. and realize that they were dishonest about the program until we caught them. they kept saying over and over again, we re not doing this. we re not collecting your records, and they were. the head of the intelligence agency lied to the american people and he still works here. in just a moment we are going to bring you senator
has this story. reporter: on capitol hill, time is almost up and the scramble in the senate is about to be on. we shouldn t surrender the tools that help keep us safe. reporter: unless the senate acts at midnight tonight key provisions of the patriot act will expire. the bulk phone program operates under this. it collects numbers dialed and how long calls lasted but does not capture the contends of conversation and other surveillance provisions set to expire, one allowing the government to seek a court order, roving wire taps for burned phones and the ability too track an american lone wolf all thousanders the united states claims are ee sectional essential to fighting terrorists. it would be irresponsible, reckless and shouldn t happen. reporter: the house passed a bill supported by the administration which would extend the key provisions. that telephone data would be kept in the hands of phone