Legality of the Patriot Act - A Theft of Civil Liberties or The Protection Of American Life

On October 26th, 2001, just over a month following the devastating attacks on September 11th, in hasty and uncontested action, the United States Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) (ACLU: the USA PATRIOT Act). The Patriot Act, stretching 342 pages in length, was drafted in an attempt to protect the American people from the rising threat of terrorism which had taken root on …showed first 75 words of 4836 total…

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