In the wake of the September eleven terrorist attacks, congress quickly threw out our fourth amendment rights by passing the USA PATRIOT Act. In order to combat the rise of terrorism and to keep up with the advancement of technology, the National Security Agency was expanded to be able to spy on most forms of electronic communication, including phone calls, text messages, and emails, domestically by the 2001 Patriot Act. Despite what the name implies, the Patriot Act is a blatant violation of our constitutional right hidden under the veil of security. The unconstitutionality of the NSA is fairly obvious, it allows the government to spy on SIGINT, “intelligence derived from electronic signals” (NSA: Signals Intelligence), from any
