means it will be extended for another five years senate opponents including rand paul ron wyden mark udall jeff merkley and mike lee were among the people speaking out against it here's part of senator wyden speech from last night he argued that we simply don't know enough about what the n.s.a. and other government organizations are doing with the information they collect. the five amendments act states that acquisitions made under section seven o two may not quote intentionally target the specific american and may not quote intentionally acquire communications that are known at the time of acquisition to be wholly domestic but mr president the problem with that is it still leaves a lot of room for circumstances under which americans phone calls and e-mails including purely domestic phone calls and e-mails could be swept up and reviewed without a warrant. despite senator wyden and vocal criticism of syslog now goes to president obama for his signature critics of the law like the electronic frontier foundation say it violates american fourth amendment rights they say the government can get ahold of e-ma

concerned about privacy issues the bill presents to finally have the debate senators ron wyden jeff merkley rand paul mark udall and mike leave took turns discussing the dangers of the bill take a listen to senator lee i worry that in seeking to achieve temporary safety some of the authorities we have given the government under fire may compromise essential rights and liberties in particular i'm concerned about the government's ability without a warrant to search through pfizer materials for communications involving individual american citizens. some of those same senators also brought up amendments to make five a little ball more transparent and possibly a little more palatable all of which were turned down meanwhile senator dianne feinstein chair of the senate intelligence committee committee took a different approach saying that the senate didn't have enough time to argue over the bill with only four days left interesting because the bill was slated for discussion back in september so she was also disparaging about the public's right to know about the law that governs them saying quote you put all this out i