“[T]he Patriot Act [passed on October 26, 2001] accomplished something quite important, which was to break down the legal wall that had been blocking the flow of information between the CIA and the FBI.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 245 […]
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10/26/2001
The USA PATRIOT Act “was passed a mere six weeks after 9/11 [signed into law on October 26, 2001], without any meaningful deliberations or hearings. …In hundreds of provisions amending previous laws, the Patriot Act empowered [Bush] administration officials to spy on anyone, including Americans, with less basis for suspicion and less judicial review; it […]
10/26/2001
“Brian Ross, a highly respected investigative reporter for ABC News, led the newscast that night [October 26, 2001] stating that he had learned from ‘three well-placed but separate sources’ that initial tests had found the chemical additive bentonite in the anthrax, and that the only country known to have used this substance to produce biological […]
10/26/2001
“Assistant FBI director David Szady…said the passage into law in October [26] 2001, of the USA Patriot Act, helped agents solve problems with the Justice Department, which had turned down important requests for electronic surveillance. …The new law made it easier to obtain court permission for wiretaps or searches…and easier for FBI criminal investigators and […]
10/26/2001
“[O]n October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law the ‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act,’ otherwise known as the USA PATRIOT Act. Only one person voted against the act in the Senate… It passed with strong bipartisan support in the House (357 to 66). The […]
10/26/2001
The Patriot Act, signed into law on October 26, 2001, “tore down the ‘wall,’ the legal barrier that prevented law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 155 […]
10/26/2001
“Section 213 in the Patriot Act [signed into law on October 26, 2001] also amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to allow authorities to search and seize the property of a target without notifying the owner. So-called sneak and peek searches are barred by traditional warrants. But these searches now can be conducted if […]
10/26/2001
“Section 215 [of the Patriot Act, signed into law on October 26, 2001] allows business records and computer hard drives of United States citizens and noncitizens alike to be searched in the name of a terrorism investigation and, like the new wiretap law, gags people from informing anyone of such monitoring: ‘No person shall disclose […]
10/26/2001
“Section 206 of the Patriot Act [signed into law on October 26, 2001]… amends the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which, in part, required intelligence agents to obtain separate court orders to monitor each telephone, computer, or other communication facility. Section 206 permits ‘roving wiretaps,’ which, in the words of [President Bill Clinton’s Chief of […]
10/26/2001
“[T]he Patriot Act [which was signed into law on October 26, 2001] does not require intelligence agencies to demonstrate before a court of law that there is a probable offense in order to obtain a judge’s approval. The act simply requires agents to state that the tap would be of some use, however general or […]