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The USA PATRIOT ACT ratified by Congress on this exact date... Bonus Question, President Bush signed the law passed by Congress on this date...
What is October 25th, 2001 October 26th, 2001
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The three main goals which the Patriot Act attempts to address according to the Heritage Foundation is...
What is, first it gives investigators familiar tools to use against a new threat. Second, it breaks down a wall that has prevented information-sharing between agencies. Third, it updates U.S. laws to respond to the current Internet environment.
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The Patriot Act has given the tools for Government agencies to conduct what?
What is The USA PATRIOT Act authorizes government agencies to share intelligence so that a complete mosaic of information can be compiled to understand better what terrorists might be planning and to prevent attacks.
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The updating of the FISA act of 1978 eased some of the restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States, and affords the U.S. intelligence community greater access to information unearthed during a criminal investigation, but it also establishes and expands safeguards against official abuse. The act appointed this many judges to the FISA court...
Increased the number of judges on the FISA court from 7 to 11
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The ACLU self proclaims to be the nation’s premier guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. The ACLU's opinion of the Patriot Act is this...
What is repeal nearly every law enforcement tool to combat terrorism.
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This is the number of Congressmen in the House of Representatives which initially approved the USA PATRIOT ACT... What was the vote in the Senate?
What is 357 to 66 and in the Senate 98 to 1
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These are the amount of abuses the government has conducted under the auspices of the Patriot Act that have been documented or reported to Congress...
What is NONE Bill Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno, told the 9/11 Commission recently that “Everything that’s been done in the Patriot Act has been helpful.” And in October 2005, Senator Joseph Biden called the criticism of the Patriot Act “ill-informed and overblown.” Senator Dianne Feinstein said, “I have never had a single abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me.” And when she asked the ACLU for examples of violations of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, Senator Feinstein said, “They had none.”
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According to the Patriot Act, the law allows information sharing between between intelligence collection agencies and who?
What is law enforcement.
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In federal law, money laundering is the flow of cash or other valuables derived from, or intended to facilitate, the commission of a criminal offense. The Patriot Act allowed greater flexibility to track and deter money laundering by updating this provision of the Patriot Act...
What is "International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act
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According to the ACLU, the Patriot Act vastly – and unconstitutionally – expanded the government’s authority to pry into people’s private lives with little or no evidence of wrongdoing. These overboard and unconstitutional authorities have been abused through the Patriot Act...
What is "no evidence exists to answer this question.
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The USA PATRIOT ACT was renewed in this year because of the automatic termination under the sunset clause...
What is 2005 and 2011
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Based upon America's recent experience thus far in combatting terrorism since 9/11, it seems that the advantages gained are substantially greater than the potential dangers posed by changes in the investigative authority granted the executive branch—but this branch of government will make assessment on a full record when it reconsiders portions of the Patriot Act...
What is Congress
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Prior to passage of the PATRIOT ACT, federal prosecutors could not disclose this information to intelligence and national defense officials even if that information indicated that terrorists were planning a future attack...
What is federal grand jury and wiretap information (including “wire, oral, or electronic communications”)
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Because combating terrorism may involve numerous jurisdictional boundaries, this section of the Patriot Act allowed greater information sharing amongst law enforcement and the intelligence community...
What is Title VII. The purpose of this title is to increase the ability of U.S. law enforcement to counter terrorist activity that crosses jurisdictional boundaries. It does this by amending the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include terrorism as a criminal activity.
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The FISA act is controversial due to the government's ability to access this on your phone through a title III wiretap order rather than a search warrant.
What is voicemail
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The USA PATRIOT ACT is abbreviated to stand for this...
What is the United and Strengthening America and Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001.
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Section 206 of the Patriot Act authorized the use of this type of wiretaps that follow an individual and are not tied to a specific telephone or location—in terrorism investigations...
What is Roving Wiretaps.
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Section 905 of the USA PATRIOT Act requires all federal law enforcement agencies to disclose expeditiously to the Director of Central Intelligence any foreign intelligence acquired in the course of this type of investigation...
What are criminal investigations
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Title VIII of the Patriot Act alters the definitions of terrorism, and establishes or re-defines rules with which to deal with it. It redefined this term to broadly include mass destruction as well as assassination or kidnapping as a terrorist activity...
What is "domestic terrorism"
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A provision of the PATRIOT Act that has caused a great deal of consternation amongst librarians is Section 215 which allows the FBI to apply for an order to produce materials that assist in an investigation undertaken to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities...
What is among the "tangible things" that could be targeted, it includes "books, records, papers, documents, and other items
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Title I of the PATRIOT ACT authorizes measures to complete this function...
What is to enhance the ability of domestic security services to prevent terrorism.
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One section of the Patriot Act that has engendered great criticism is Section 213, which authorizes the issuance of delayed notification search warrants—which critics call this type of warrant...
What is Sneak and Peak Warrant.
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Prior to the USA PATRIOT Act, law enforcement had been operating at a technological disadvantage in the war against terrorism. Agents often were forced to use outdated legal authorities to fight terrorists who were using modern technology. Name one of the outdaated laws which the Patriot Act updated...
What is FISA Act of 1978, Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, and Money Laundering Act of 1986
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This title from the Patriot Act created penalties for those convicted of terorist acts, especially on those who attack mass transportation systems...
What is Title VIII: Terrorism criminal law
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Why does the ACLU dislike the necessary legal tools to combat terrorism?
There is no answer to this.