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...famous examples—those of the “Lackawanna Six” and the “Portland Seven”—provide tangible evidence of the Patriot Act’s effectiveness. The act enabled the nation’s intelligence and criminal investigation communities to share information with each other for the first time; this allowed the FBI to obtain evidence that directly led to the apprehension of six members of a terror cell in Lackawanna, NY and seven members of another cell in Portland, Ore. Nearly a decade’s worth...
This is not to say that there are absolutely no protections evident in the Patriot Act. But we do assert that the privacy protections that are present—which include court authorizations—are inadequate safeguards against the government’s abuse of power...
...cannot deny that President Obama’s Feb. 27 reauthorization of key provisions of the Patriot Act compromises his pledge to scale back the Bush-era surveillance state. However, his reversal is not the product of politically expedient cowardice; it is the responsible act of a commander-in-chief placing national security before naïve ideology...
Civil libertarians condemn the Patriot Act for unconstitutionally curtailing the right to privacy. However, as no such right is explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, this protection is at best controversial. We readily acknowledge that the Patriot Act’s provisions necessarily curtail privacy, but we strongly reject assertions of its illegitimacy...
...security. The possession of privileged, personal information by the federal government is not in and of itself problematic; information by itself is harmless. Only the potential abuses that could result from such knowledge threaten individual liberty. Thus, it is important to establish safeguards against government abuses like the Privacy Act of 1974, which prevents the unauthorized disclosure of personal information...