Word: patriots
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...potential consequences are fearsome. As The New York Times reported, the Patriot Act, renewed by Congress in March, empowers the FBI to demand individuals’ private information from doctors’ offices, banks, and libraries without a judge’s consent, using “national security letters,” which carry with them a “gag rule,” that prevents recipients from discussing the letters with anyone but their lawyers. (Those investigated can challenge this gag rule.) For researchers using services like RefWorks, the potential hazard is that their academic work could...
...circumstances with respect to having their work surveyed than do their Canadian colleagues. For one thing, academics in this country have nowhere to hide—even if Harvard were to move all of its users’ personal information from sites like RefWorks to servers in Canada, the Patriot Act still enables the FBI to demand that librarians and Internet service providers surrender user records...
...argument in favor of the Patriot Act’s surveillance provisions is that not subjecting private records to scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...
...other tools at its disposal, why does the FBI need to lurk in the shadows, peering over the shoulders of this country’s researchers? I don’t recall the last time an act of terrorism was perpetrated with the help of LexisNexis. Unless the Patriot Act presumes to also prevent plagiarism, the only thing the FBI’s snooping at Harvard seems likely to prevent is academics feeling safe in conducting their own research, particularly in fields that are rightly becoming the focus of new expansion of the University’s academic horizons...
...have not been, and continue to be, important rifts between African-American and immigrant-origin Muslims here. Not the least of these was the latter's support of Bush in 2000, which dramatically highlighted the social and economic gap between these two groups. But in the wake of the Patriot Act and perceived ethnic profiling, such strains have been overcome, though hardly eliminated. For immigrant-origin Muslims, African Americans' long-standing concern with civil rights suddenly has a relevance it previously lacked. And now, Muslims from places like Pakistan or Egypt, who might in the past have avoided politics...