Word: patriotism
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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...
While some higher education advocates have suggested exempting universities from some of the Patriot Act’s more extreme demands in order to eliminate delays, those close to the new legislation do not seem to support the possibility for exceptions to the legislation’s scrutiny...
Some of the Patriot Act’s more extreme provisions—such as a section allowing wiretapping without previously required court approval—are scheduled to “sunset” next year, and Casey says he presently expects Congress to support the shutdown of some of the Act’s requirements...
With resolution still fixed indefinitely in the future, debate rages on among the nation’s top scholars, academic leaders and, in some cases, its legislators. Bills that would scale back some of the Patriot Act’s provisions are presently under debate in the Senate and the House...