The 2001 Patriot Act has been apart of everyday life for Americans, whether in the form of TSA at an airport or the NSA, and many find this act to be unconstitutional.
Article I. What the Patriot act is.
The Patriot act was a law signed in by congress after the September 11th terrorist attacks. The main purpose of the act is to prevent another catastrophic terrorist attack like 9/11. How the Patriot act goes about preventing that is another question. The act is found to be unconstitutional to many people.The Patriot act gave the department of justice several significant ways to combat and prevent terror. For example one of them was that the Patriot act allowed information sharing and cooperation among government agencies such as the NSA and the CIA to better help connect …show more content…
At the time, pundits never expected him to add more than a few additional names to the first 24 co-sponsors. By mid-August 2003, however, Sanders had garnered more than 130 sponsors - Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives alike - in support of his "Freedom to Read Protection Act," H.R. 1157, a bill that would exempt libraries and bookstores from section 215 and would require a higher standard of proof than mere suspicion for search warrants presented at libraries and bookstores. When considering co-sponsoring the Sanders bill, Don Young (R-AK) told a group of reporters in May that "the Patriot Act was not really thought out. I 'm very concerned that, in our desire for security and our enthusiasm for pursuing supposedly terrorists, that sometimes we might be on the verge of giving up the freedoms which we 're trying to protect. … It goes to show you I 'm willing to look at the right side of an issue. …. I don 't think it 's anybody 's business what I 'm reading in the
Article I. What the Patriot act is.
The Patriot act was a law signed in by congress after the September 11th terrorist attacks. The main purpose of the act is to prevent another catastrophic terrorist attack like 9/11. How the Patriot act goes about preventing that is another question. The act is found to be unconstitutional to many people.The Patriot act gave the department of justice several significant ways to combat and prevent terror. For example one of them was that the Patriot act allowed information sharing and cooperation among government agencies such as the NSA and the CIA to better help connect …show more content…
At the time, pundits never expected him to add more than a few additional names to the first 24 co-sponsors. By mid-August 2003, however, Sanders had garnered more than 130 sponsors - Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives alike - in support of his "Freedom to Read Protection Act," H.R. 1157, a bill that would exempt libraries and bookstores from section 215 and would require a higher standard of proof than mere suspicion for search warrants presented at libraries and bookstores. When considering co-sponsoring the Sanders bill, Don Young (R-AK) told a group of reporters in May that "the Patriot Act was not really thought out. I 'm very concerned that, in our desire for security and our enthusiasm for pursuing supposedly terrorists, that sometimes we might be on the verge of giving up the freedoms which we 're trying to protect. … It goes to show you I 'm willing to look at the right side of an issue. …. I don 't think it 's anybody 's business what I 'm reading in the