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...well. As he sees it, 9/11 was a tragedy for America, a career move for Bush. The attacks allowed the President to push through Congress restrictive laws that would have been defeated in any climate but the ?war on terror? chill. ?Fahrenheit 9/11? shows some tragicomic effects of the Patriot Act: a man quizzed by the FBI for casually mentioning at his health club that he thought Bush was an ?asshole?; a benign peace group in Fresno, Cal., infiltrated by an undercover police agent...
...narrator and guiding force, though he does make a few piquant appearances. While chatting with Unger across the street from the Saudi embassy in Washington, he is approached and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Hearing from Rep. John Conyers that no member of Congress had read the complete Patriot Act before voting for it, he hires a Mister Softee truck and patrols downtown D.C. reading the act to members of Congress over a loudspeaker. Toward the end, he tries to get Congressmen to enlist their sons in the military. Surprise: no volunteers...
Section 817 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the broad-ranging anti-terrorist legislation passed in October of 2001, bars “restricted persons”—researchers who either have criminal backgrounds or who come from countries that the U.S. has identified as state sponsors of terrorism—from any access to select agents...
...acutely aware of the limitations of one faculty or one institution,” he says. “The PATRIOT Act and the Bioterrorism Act are laws of the United States, and as a dean rather than as an individual, I have to comply with the law,” he says...
Even so, Bloom says the response from the higher-education community as a whole could be stronger. “I would like to see a greater thrust of all the universities to modify the PATRIOT...