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An 8 page paper. On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001. This is a controversial Act that continues to be debated. This essay explains some of the many provisions included in the PATRIOT Act. The writer also comments on the controversy surrounding this Act. The writer also supports the new Act and argues that laws must be enforced and that different official agencies need to have the tools they need to do their job, which is to protect the country. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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name Patriot Act and also by the acronym USAPA (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2001). This Act made dramatic and sweeping changes to previous statutes, giving vast new powers to domestic law
enforcement agencies and international intelligence agencies (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2001). Any Act that gives more power to law enforcement and intelligence agencies is immediately circumspect and controversial with organizations
like the ACLU yelling about the Bill of Rights and Constitutional Rights. But, we need to look just briefly at the events that triggered the passing of this Act.
For more than 200 years, the citizens of the United States of America have enjoyed a degree of freedom found in no other country in the world. This nation has
been unscathed by attacks on her own soil. That all changed on September 11, 2001. This nation was attacked by terrorists. The thousands who died at the hands of these
terrorists represented about 80 nations. These were innocent people, going about their daily routine of work and travel. The freedom offered in this nation for her entire life is the
very aspect that allowed these horrendous attacks to be successfully planned and implemented. Dr. Martin Libicki is Senior Policy Analyst at RAND, where he specializes in the relationship between information
technology and national security (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001). During a lecture entitled "Balancing National Security and Civil Liberties in an Age of Networked Terrorism," Libicki compared the nations
surveillance problems to carnivores and herbivores (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001). Libicki said: "Carnivores are very specific in their pursuit of food and convert a high percentage of what
they eat into protein. In contrast, herbivores are less specific and have to eat a very large amount of food to get enough protein to survive. To date we have
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