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This 5-page paper discusses provisions of the USA Patriot Act, some of the pros and cons of those provisions, and whether governmental statutory authority has overstepped its bounds. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Towers and the Pentagon. Less than two months later, H.R. 3161, entitled "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 -
better known as its shorter version, the USA Patriot Act of 2001, or as it was later shortened to even further, the Patriot Act - was signed by President George
W. Bush. The main purpose of the Patriot Act was to, in its exact words, "deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States . . . to enhance law
enforcement investigatory tools and for other purposes" (Patriot Act, 2001). "Enhancing," according to the act, ranged from enhanced surveillance procedures, to improving bank secrecy act amendments, to enhancing immigrant provisions,
to strengthening criminal laws against terrorism and improving intelligence communications between agencies (Patriot Act, 2001). Sales (2010) points out one very large
benefit of the Patriot Act - namely the idea of information sharing. In the days leading up to 9/11, intelligence and security agencies were trying to find Khalid al-Mihdhar, a
suspected Al-Qaeda operative - but as we now know more than 10 years later, some agencies had the information on this hijacker but the lack of sharing prevented anyone from
really doing anything about it. Certainly, Sales notes, information sharing means intelligence members can do a better job of connecting the dots - individually, a piece of information may not
mean much, but when put together with other information, it can lead to something more meaningful; an effect known as the mosaic theory.
Since the time during which the Patriot Act went into effect and even today (some parts of that Act are still live), questions about privacy, liberty and how much
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