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The author introduces this 3 page paper with an overview of the 1975 discovery by Congressional Investigator Britt Snyder that the National international telegraph signals had been being intercepted since after World War I. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Patriot Act and its Similarities to the NSA
Affair Codenamed Shamrock by Jun 2010 paper properly!
In September 1975 Congressional Investigator Britt Snyder
uncovered the fact that the National Security Agency and its predecessors had been intercepting international telegraph signals, an action that was in direct violation of the 1912 Radio Communications Act
(Pernot, 2010). Further investigation proved that the illicit activity, the illicit activity codenamed "Shamrock", had been occurring since the years following World War I (Pernot, 2010). Congress followed
up on Synders discovery and confirmed that no only was the activity in violation of the 1912 Radio Communications Act it was also in violation of the Communications Act
of 1934 (Pernot, 2010). Even more concerning, of course, is the implications such activity has under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Unfortunately, our governments illicit monitoring of
our personal communication continues to this day. It does so because of a hastily written piece of legislation passed by the George W. Bush administration in the aftermath of 9-11.
Just as was the case with the Shamrock affair, the Patriot Act and the activities is condones are a direct attack on our
Constitutional rights. This is true despite the fact that our government considers itself operating under an extreme emergency. The real emergency at hand is the loss of our
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