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...Department of Justice official who assembled the USA PATRIOT Act said in an Institute of Politics debate with an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) leader yesterday that the legislation continues to offer protection without infringing on rights...
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Viet Dinh ’90 told the audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that he believes most criticism of the PATRIOT Act—which permits increased governmental scrutiny of civilians by authorizing techniques like secret subpoenas and wiretaps and by creating more stringent immigration controls—is excessive...
...recognize that there are some genuine, if, in my opinion, unfounded fears relating to the PATRIOT Act,” he said. “But I disagree fundamentally that we have sacrificed any constitutional rights as a result...
Rose recounted a list of anecdotes about citizens who had been investigated under the PATRIOT Act for undertakings that had no apparent link to terrorism. An eight-year-old student, she said, was investigated after gathering information from the library for a research project on bridges...
...Dinh said such cases are anomalies. The PATRIOT Act increased security markedly by establishing countermeasures against the “pervasive and symmetric threat” of terrorism, he said...