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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/senate-extends-antiterror-laws.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The US Senate voted to extend for 90 days the legal life of three post-September 11 anti-terror measures" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-senate-extends-antiterror-laws.jpg" alt="The US Senate voted to extend for 90 days the legal life of three post-September 11 anti-terror measures"/></a></p>
<p>The US Senate has voted to extend for 90 days the legal life of three post-September 11 anti-terror measures, including the use of roving wiretaps, that were due to expire at the end of the month.</p>
<p>The short-term extension gives politicians a chance to review the measures that critics from both the right and left say are unconstitutional infringements on personal liberties.</p>
<p>The Senate voted 86-12 a day after the House of Representatives agreed to extend the three provisions, including two from the 2001 USA Patriot Act, until December 8. The two chambers must now agree on a common approach, but with Congress in recess next week, there is pressure to reach a compromise this week.</p>
<p>The measures include the authority to initiate roving wiretaps on multiple electronic devices and the authority to obtain court-approved access to business records considered relevant to terror investigations.</p>
<p>The third &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; provision, part of a 2004 law, permits secret intelligence surveillance of non-US individuals not known to be linked to a specific terrorist activity.</p>
<p>Without the three provisions, said Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, &#8220;our law enforcement and intelligence agencies would lack important tools to protect this nation&#8221;.</p>
<p>From the inception of the Patriot Act in the days after the September 11 2001 attacks, the increased surveillance powers have been subject to scrutiny and criticism from both conservatives and liberals, who say they violate free speech rights and rights against unwarranted searches and seizures.</p>
<p>&#8220;We knew we were in a very emotional state&#8221; after the attacks, said Democratic senator Dick Durbin.</p>
<p>He said the provisions gave the government access to sensitive personal files such as medical, library and gun records, and &#8220;can lead to government fishing expeditions that target, unfortunately, innocent Americans&#8221;.</p>
<p>The White House, in a statement last week on the House bill, said it &#8220;does not object&#8221; to the 10-month extension proposed but would prefer continuing the authority to the end of 2012 because &#8220;longer duration provides the necessary certainty and predictability that our nation&#8217;s intelligence and law enforcement agencies require&#8221;.</p>
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