Word: patriotism
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...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will still be able to access Harvard patron borrowing records—a power Harvard officials argue may have a chilling effect on academic freedom—if Congress renews the Patriot Act now that lawmakers and the White House have reached a compromise on controversial aspects of the legislation...
Harvard’s long-standing concerns about the Patriot Act have not been adequately addressed by the three proposed changes to the revised Patriot Act legislation announced last week, according to Director of the Harvard University Library Sidney Verba...
...over the visa revocation of high-profile Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan. The academy is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate,” said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that...
...individual rights seems to have become less sympathetic. Chertoff has been criticized for being an architect of the White House’s effort to strengthen executive authority, first as head of the Justice Department’s criminal division—during which time he co-authored the Patriot Act—and now as chief of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Chertoff recently came under fire after the National Security Agency’s secret domestic spying program was exposed by The New York Times in December. As chief of DHS, he is responsible for obtaining...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will retain its present level of access to patron records at libraries—including Harvard’s—until March 10, after Congress voted to temporarily renew the U.S.A. Patriot Act Thursday. This second short-term renewal signals lawmakers’ reluctance to reauthorize the legislation over the long-term without changing the extent of the government’s access to library records. Harvard officials have argued that the FBI’s ability to demand patron information could have a chilling effect on academic freedom. “There...