The beginnings of terrorism when America is considered or even terror as a whole as it seeps through …show more content…
When suspicious people were assumed to be boarding planes, only their luggage was checked, as seen specifically with one of the hijackers in the 9/11 crisis(9/11 Commission Report, 1). The law enforcement and intelligence agencies were actually restricted by law in the amount of information they could share with each other in order to honor the ‘civil liberties’ of the citizens (Friedman, 15). The Patriot Act which was passed in order to ‘preserve the life and liberty of citizens’ had many features concerning how terrorists could now be handled by the government. Now, increased surveillance was allowed and encouraged, assumed terrorists no longer had the right to know they were being investigated, and court orders to obtain business records when concerning national security could be issued as well(Ball, 37). Search warrants can be immediately issued to law enforcement when terrorist-activity as assumed, and hackers can be monitored immediately once a victim reports it to the authorities. Lastly, new harsh punishments were published to ward off perspective terrorists and increase security among the citizens, some of which have been issued as sexual torture and stress matrices (Head,