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Title: USA Patriot Act I


1
USA Patriot Act I
  • Immediately post 9/11
  • Expanded search authority
  • Roving wiretaps
  • Monitor private internet and email traffic
  • Acquisition of library and bookstore records
    (Section 215)
  • Basis for information request is made solely on
    the assertion of the government that there is a
    connection to an ongoing investigation target
    does not have to be a suspect

2
First Amendment Implications of USA Patriot I
  • Lowered standards for denying FOIA requests means
    less information in the marketplace
  • Expanded assertions of executive privilege and
    the need for secrecy, even in areas unrelated to
    national security (ie. energy)
  • Potential targeting of domestic dissent by
    agencies like the CIA
  • Disciplining of students, teachers, and editors
    who question official administration policy
  • Proxy groups involved in spyingreport your
    professors for any un-American activities

3
Patriot IIDomestic Security Enhancement Act of
2003
  • Eliminate distinctions between domestic and
    international terrorism in statute
  • Takes restrictions off certain Fed agencies
  • Changes focus from criminal prosecution to
    national security
  • DNA database of suspected terroristsdefined as
    person suspected of being a member of a
    terrorist organization (OK, how do we know its
    a terrorist organization? Ahhhh! Its got THOSE
    guys as members!)

4
Patriot II continued
  • Grants new powers to the Attorney General to
    authorize warrantless searches or surveillance
    (now possible only when a Declaration of War is
    issued)
  • Amends rules for expatriation (stripping
    citizenshipallowed for anyone found to be
    providing material support for a terrorist
    organization (even if that person didnt know or
    have the intent of supporting terrorism)
  • Tightens restriction on FOIA requests

5
Commentary on Patriot II
  • The Bush administrations draft Domestic
    Security Enhancement Act of 2003 would radically
    expand law enforcement and intelligence gathering
    authorities, reduce or eliminate judicial
    oversight over surveillance, authorize secret
    arrests, create a DNA database based on unchecked
    executive suspicion, create new death
    penalties, and even seek to take American
    citizenship away from persons who belong to or
    support disfavored political groups.
  • Professor David Cole, Georgetown University,
    What Patriot Act II Proposes to Do,
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