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The Patriot Act without tears: understanding a mythologized law.(The Law)
IT was mid-August 2001, the last desperate days before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Desperate, that is, for an alert agent of the FBI's Foreign Counterintelligence Division (FCI); much of the rest of America, and certainly much of the rest of its government, blithely carried on, content to assume, despite the number and increasing ferocity of terrorist attacks dating back nearly nine years, that national security was little more than an everyday criminal-justice issue.
Since 1995, a "wall" had been erected, presumptively barring communications between FCI agents and their counterparts in law enforcement--the FBI's criminal agents and the assistant U.S. attorneys ...
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...a statement about the Patriot Act and the contested section...consistently has called the Patriot Act key to dismantling terrorist...investigations" by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Patriot Act dismantled that wall by...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Patriot Act without tears: understanding a mythologized law.(The...