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...PATRIOT Act is a beastly 131-page creation that was passed in a flurry of flag-waving in 2001. It has several terrible provisions: it allows “preventive detentions” and gives the federal government greater authority over the records of foreign students and vastly expands wiretap authority. One misguided requirement even mandates discrimination; it prevents university labs from allowing citizens of seven “terrorist-supporting states” to perform research on certain classified substances...
Under the PATRIOT Act, the government could only interfere in this way if FAS scientists were working with more than a certain amount of a chemical or biological agent on a federal classified list...
...said the PATRIOT Act now requires that any work done with these substances be registered and hence subject to government laws limiting its access...
...addition to its objections to the PATRIOT Act’s restrictions on foreign researchers, FAS is also concerned by the extent of the act’s security requirements...
...said that other provisions of the PATRIOT Act—such as the FBI being able to subpoena individuals’ personal records—were more blatant violations...