Senator: There Are Two Patriot Acts, And You Don't Know About One Of Them

[businessinsider] Senator Ron Wyden, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, explained that "there are two Patriot Acts in America."

One is the public one, a law whose text you can pull up on your Web browser.

But there's another one -- the "secret interpretation that the executive branch uses" to carry out its enforcement of the law.

Wyden couldn't say much more because of security concerns, but John Heilemann asked him if he would correct him when he made the following statement: the administration is doing a lot more warrantless wiretapping under their interpretation of the Patriot Act than most people think.

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