With these advances in technology and tools there have also been advancements made in the reporting of violation and violation check and double check protocol. According to Deflem and McDonough, the FBI reports any violations that they catch and in the time period of 2003-2005 they reported 26 possible violations of which only 22 were due to the fault of the FBI. A study done two years later by OIG about the same period of time turned up an additional 1,000 possible violations that the FBI failed to report (2015).
Even though these reporting processes are in place advocates among other including some lawmakers are not supportive of the increased measures (McCutcheon, 2013). To back up their fears, there have been releases, or leaks, of secret …show more content…
The USA PATRIOT ACT stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (Deflem, McDonough, 2015). It makes a person wonder if the name came first, or if the desire to have something seem super patriotic was enough to create a title to fit with those letters. “The American public is skeptical of the Patriot Act. More than 180 governments have urged a rollback of its expansive powers.” (Jost, 2003 p.904). People question the act because it was created so quickly which caused it to be made without the normal amount of checkpoints and reviews that any other act would go through. Also, the act is very vague about what exactly it allows for and which items it prohibits. For example, the USA PATRIOT ACT made it easier for agencies to share information with one another, but also went ahead and broadened the discretion of the FBI to allow for domestic surveillance (Jost, 2003). That seems simple, but it does not come right out and say which agencies will share with one another and which will not. It does not say that they have to share important information, simply that they are allowed to under certain circumstances. The second part of that, allowing the FBI to conduct domestic surveillance also leads to some legal questions about the type of surveillance and when those …show more content…
11, there has been a steady assault on many fundamental liberties in the name of fighting terrorism but in ways that have nothing at all to do with catching terrorists.” (Jost, 2003, p.894). According to the study which has been named the “Civil Liberties Survey” over half of people preferred to protect their civil liberties instead of trading them off for a more secure nation. On the other hand, over half of those same people said that they were okay with allowing the government to require national ID cards in order to offer security. This shows that people want a safe nation, but they also want their constitutional guaranteed rights (Davis, Silver,
Even though these reporting processes are in place advocates among other including some lawmakers are not supportive of the increased measures (McCutcheon, 2013). To back up their fears, there have been releases, or leaks, of secret …show more content…
The USA PATRIOT ACT stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (Deflem, McDonough, 2015). It makes a person wonder if the name came first, or if the desire to have something seem super patriotic was enough to create a title to fit with those letters. “The American public is skeptical of the Patriot Act. More than 180 governments have urged a rollback of its expansive powers.” (Jost, 2003 p.904). People question the act because it was created so quickly which caused it to be made without the normal amount of checkpoints and reviews that any other act would go through. Also, the act is very vague about what exactly it allows for and which items it prohibits. For example, the USA PATRIOT ACT made it easier for agencies to share information with one another, but also went ahead and broadened the discretion of the FBI to allow for domestic surveillance (Jost, 2003). That seems simple, but it does not come right out and say which agencies will share with one another and which will not. It does not say that they have to share important information, simply that they are allowed to under certain circumstances. The second part of that, allowing the FBI to conduct domestic surveillance also leads to some legal questions about the type of surveillance and when those …show more content…
11, there has been a steady assault on many fundamental liberties in the name of fighting terrorism but in ways that have nothing at all to do with catching terrorists.” (Jost, 2003, p.894). According to the study which has been named the “Civil Liberties Survey” over half of people preferred to protect their civil liberties instead of trading them off for a more secure nation. On the other hand, over half of those same people said that they were okay with allowing the government to require national ID cards in order to offer security. This shows that people want a safe nation, but they also want their constitutional guaranteed rights (Davis, Silver,