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5 days ago · In October 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which granted the administration broad powers to fight terrorism. [6] . The Bush administration used these powers to bypass the FISC and directed the NSA to spy directly on al-Qaeda via a new NSA electronic surveillance program.
5 days ago · In our news wrap Tuesday, the Senate passed the USA Freedom Act to replace expired provisions of the Patriot Act, including the NSA’s legal authority to collect bulk phone records. The new ...
3 days ago · The USA PATRIOT Act: Broadening Government Powers to Monitor Suspected Terrorists The fight against terrorism has become a top priority for governments worldwide. In the United States, the government has enacted several laws to enhance its ability to combat this critical threat. One such notable legislation is the **USA PATRIOT Act**, which significantly broadened the […]
2 days ago · On October 26, 2001, Bush signed into law the Patriot Act. Passed on the president's request, the act permitted increased sharing of intelligence among the U.S. Intelligence Community and expanded the government's domestic authority to conduct surveillance of suspected terrorists.
5 days ago · The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata on U.S. citizens by American intelligence agencies, including the ...
1 day ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv's desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an ...
3 days ago · The Patriot Act's two most important provisions for information technology are its improved ability to handle and examine encrypted sensitive information and its clarification of the legal restrictions on using electronic communications like emails. The USA Patriot Act impacts domestic and international terrorism investigations (Wasif, 2017).
