After September 11th 2001 we realized that we are living in a new era, an era where we understand the potential for attacks within our borders. That is what made this attack so rare; we haven’t experienced an attack on our home soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This attack made us aware of the possibilities of future attacks and our government knew they had to devise a plan that would deter terrorist cells home and abroad. It made our government aware that the tools they were using for intelligence and national security were not enough and they needed to be enhanced and to make information easier to get and review. In response, our government came up with the Patriot Act. Without this act our nation’s ability to provide the highest level of national security would be handicapped.

This form of legislation is an attempt to deter future terrorist activity. This act enhances state, federal, and local authorities’ means that can be used in an investigation of a suspected terrorist. Previously these tools have been used t

Many of the tools that are being used under The Patriot Act have been used for years. For example, under certain circumstances, “delayed notification of warrants” have been used in drug cartel cases, without them it doesn’t give them advantage to the authorities, but to the criminals, because they will be well aware of the polices’ actions. Roving wiretaps have been used in cases where a drug dealer has 3 different phone lines and without getting a separate warrant for each line they use the same wire tap for all three to save time that should be spent catching criminals rather than paper work. One of the controversial parts of The Patriot Act is the fact that the FBI has the authority to monitor the habits of American reading from library records. General John Ashcroft cleared up the hysteria behind this by explaining the facts that the FBI does not have the staffing or the interest in the reading habits of Americans and to this day not one time was the power to check library records used. As far as administrative subpoenas goes, which allows certain records to be obtained quickly, there are currently 335 offenses that allows this form of a subpoena to be used. Agreeing with Mr. Ashcroft terrorism should also be included within the 335 other cases this for

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