On October 26, 2001, “At a news conference in Prague [Czech Republic], the Czech interior minister [Stanislav Gross] confirms that an Iraqi intelligence officer, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, met with the 9/11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, in Prague in early 2001.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 231 […]
10/26/2001
“[U]nder the Patriot Act [signed into law on October 26, 2001] the FBI can now use its controversial ‘Carnivore’ system, which allows it to monitor all subscribers of an Internet service provider, such as America Online, if one user is a target, with few barriers or privacy protections.” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America […]
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 […]
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
“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 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
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
“[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
“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
“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 […]