1. 4th Amendment and the Patriot Act
... impossible for prosecutors to reach. In November of 2002, a special federal appeals court established that there never really was a procedural barrier preventing prosecutors from searching through all of the evidence seized through FISA. They also stated that even if this barrier had existed, it would have been significantly reduced by the passage of the USA Patriot Act. Attorney General John Ashcroft recognized ... ...
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