The USA Patriot Act and successor legislation are vital to provide the security that ensures our liberty.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: USA Patriot Act: Vital to protect our freedom
At stake right now are provisions in the 2001 USA Patriot Act and in new legislation the Bush Administration has pending before Congress.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: USA Patriot Act: Vital to protect our freedom
And most Americans believe that the USA Patriot Act "is within acceptable bounds in its treatment of civil liberties, " the Gallup News Service announces.
National security letters date back to the 1980s and were strengthened under the USA Patriot Act, the counterterrorism law put into place after Sept. 11.
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Suffice it to say, Tony Blair's mugged-liberal response to terror attacks in the United Kingdom makes the USA Patriot Act look like the ACLU's fondest dream.
It lobbied intensively against portions of the USA Patriot Act.
So in that regard, one could argue that the U.S., with its host of federal agencies and its omnibus USA Patriot Act is more of a police state than Russia.
These compliance initiatives are designed to meet the highest international standards, including those established by the USA PATRIOT Act, the EU 3rd Money Laundering Directive, and the Swiss Money Laundering Ordinance.
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It urges renewal of a strong USA Patriot Act.
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Incredible as it may seem, the statute that accomplished this singularly important feat known by its acronym as the USA PATRIOT Act is currently the object of an intensive wrecking operation on Capitol Hill.
The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the purpose of National Security Letters (NSL) to allow government agencies to use them to request any data relevant to an investigation of terrorism or an intelligence activity without court oversight.
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The new USA Patriot Act failed to close the loopholes in the old Kennedy law, and incorporates language from the Kennedy law that prevents the FBI from wiretapping a terror suspect if the only evidence is his exercising of his First Amendment right to say he supports terrorism.
In October 2001, Congress enacted the Patriot Act by overwhelming, bipartisan margins, arming law enforcement with new tools to detect and prevent terrorism: The USA Patriot Act was passed nearly unanimously by the Senate 98-1, and 357-66 in the House, with the support of members across the entire political spectrum.
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