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calibasyesterday at 2:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

> In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives, and as such, the law has expired.

The wording is confusing. Two provisions expired, not the entire Patriot Act.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250306093943/https://www.nytim...


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nostrademonsyesterday at 3:41 PM

The Wikipedia article is quite confusing, and seems to imply that those two provisions expired because they were the only two provisions not sunsetted already. The table indicates that most of the law sunsetted on March of 2006:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Section_expiration...

But then they say "The first act reauthorized all but two Title II provisions. Two sections were changed to sunset on December 31, 2009"

But the first act was passed in 2005, and so it's unclear whether it reauthorized provisions only until 2006 or a longer term.

calibasyesterday at 6:40 PM

I looked into this a little more, and these were the final two provisions of the Patriot Act, so the did law expire.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean a whole lot, as many of the provisions live on in the USA Freedom Act.

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bilbo0syesterday at 3:30 PM

The wording is confusing.

Being confusing, I'm almost certain, was the entire point.