Arguments Against Section 215 Of The Patriot Act

In The United States of America the National Security Agency has been working for ages to assure that the country is safe, but recently it has become a rising concern that they have overstepped their boundaries of American citizen’s privacy by operating surveillance technology all around the country and storing data form every phone call of citizens. With the American Citizens’ privacy at stake, each branch of government took its stand against the matter. The Judicial Branch has to come up with a legal compromise; the Legislative Branch and Congress are working to make surveillance laws that would better please its citizens, and the Executive Branch and the president have agreed to come up with an alternative to Section 215 of The Patriot Act. The Supreme Court has to establish a legal compromise to the surveillance of the American citizens considering it was said that what the National Security Agency/Central Security was doing went against Section 215 of the Patriot Act. When the case was first presented to The Supreme Court, they recognized that Section 215 was soon to expire; therefore, they sent the case back down to the lower court for further transaction. They then approved the USA Freedom Act which was a compromise among the top law makers pushing surveillance revision and the House Republican leadership. …show more content…
Congress started action upon the issue by confiscating all intelligence-gathering powers from the National Security Agency/Central Security. They attempted to have the expiration of Section 215 of the Patriot Act extended so that with that time colleagues could solve revisions of the Act; however, this request was denied. Congress was then successful in passing the USA Freedom Act, resulting of the confiscation of all citizen call data stored by the National Security Agency/Central