USA PATRIOT Act
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Overview
The USA PATRIOT Act, commonly referred to as the "Patriot Act", was signed into U.S. law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.
|
This page is a seed article. You can help Issuepedia water it: make a request to expand a given page and/or donate to help give us more writing-hours!
|
Links
Reference
News
- 2006-02-28 Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say by Josh Gerstein, The New York Sun
Video
- Bullshit! by Penn & Teller (first half is about PATRIOT, second half is about surveillance)
- "other purposes" as a legal phrase
- most of the reps who voted for the act didn't read it
- gives right to get lists of books checked out by library patrons without their notification
- trials on offshore barges
- we are at war ?? libraries as sanctuaries for terror?
- Bob Barr, republican who voted for the act, now regrets his vote
- cameras didn't stop the terrorists; armed passengers could have stopped them