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terrorist behind bars. The Patriot Act gives this power to the NSA and repealing the Patriot act would be detrimental to US safety and security because it would takeaway the government’s power to track these dangerous individuals. Opponents to the…

Power Rankings 1. New England Patriots: 5-0 (1) Not quite the 50 burger I predicted, but the Patriots still handled business this past week, winning 34-27 over the Colts. Although it was a one score game, the score wasn’t indicative of how much the Patriots dominated the game. Despite, Tom Brady throwing his first interception of the season, he is still by far the MVP through the first six weeks of the season. The Patriots’ are the most complete offensive team in football. They have…

Tools Within the Agencies. Information sharing is not the only tool that comes along with the Patriot Act. Agencies such as the Secret Service, Air Marshals, and Border Patrol exist to help prevent terrorism. Another agency where anti- terrorism acts have been exemplary is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. There was an instance in an airport in Miami where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a suspected foreign money launderer named Libardo Florez-Gomez. He laundered…

The Patriot Act was instated in 2002 after the tragic 9/11 event. Times have changed and so have the objectives of the Patriot Act. The government should not have the power of surveillance because it is not being used as intended and gives the US a bad reputation. The government should not have the power of surveillance because it is not being used as intended. As a result of 9/11, the government understandably was committed to keeping Americans safe at any cost. Setting overly protective…

This was seen in the creation of the PATRIOT Act. This was a law that encroached on the rights of the American people and contributed to the deterioration of the normative ideals the United States was founded on. Having been, in essence, revised by the Freedom Act signed into law on June 2, 2015,…

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…

The Patriot Act: A Need For Change The United States Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause” (Cornell University Law School). These are the rights given by the constitution. America is seen as the land of the free. It is a place where the government is by and for the people, where people’s rights shall be…

USA PATRIOT Act The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by Congress and the president at the time, George W. Bush, on October 26, 2011. It was voted in the Senate 98-1 and the House of Representatives agreed 357-66 to pass the law. The ten letter backronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Protecting Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The Congress was able to create this Act within a short period of time because they “took existing legal principles…

The Patriot Act is a government bill hastily passed after the days of the 911 terrorist attacks. In essence it is essentially an extension of a currently existing program called FISA, which allows for spying on other countries. This program costs a total of 64 billion dollars a year. And it also allows for government overreach in the form of civilian surveillance which is supposed to be prohibited by the 4th amendment (Costly 2). However the Patriot Act hasn't stopped any terrorist attacks…

The Patriot Act issued a new era in electronic surveillance. Expanding the intelligence after the wake of the September 11th attacks. (Kevan, 2015). It specifically changed Section 215 which allowed the United States National Security to collect phone records in bulk. After this act was issued the list was expanded to include computer crimes, terrorist, and chemical weapons. (Hall, 2015). In conjunction with this there is no warrant required to retrieve voice-mail only an administrative…