Word: patriotism
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...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...
Dinh said he thought legislation such as the PATRIOT Act remained important following Sept. 11 because a “war on terrorism” required some of the “deference” traditionally accorded to military bodies to be transferred to U.S. political leadership...
According to Rose, though, the government never lacked the capability to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but rather lacked the organization to use existing information meaningfully. Information-seeking measures established in the PATRIOT Act will not make prevent terrorism, she said, comparing the Act’s method to the concept “that if you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, you put more hay on the stack...