The Patriot Act has three sections that overrule the liberties listed in the First Amendment by significantly expanding government power. Section 213, “Authorizes law enforcement agents to conduct “sneak-and-peek” operations in a U.S. resident’s home” (Patriot Debates). This provision greatly violates the Fourth Amendment that protects the right of the individual to be notified of search orders. The greatest crime committed by this provision is secretly but legally conducting a search of an individual's home. Section 215 gives the the FBI authority to, “opens medical records, magazine subscriptions, e-mails, bookstore purchases, library circulation records, genetic information, academic transcripts, psychiatric records, membership lists, diaries, charitable
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When the FBI has even the slightest viable evidence, a Nation Security Letter can be signed and approved by certain FBI agents which allows access to both criminals and suspects. A clear violation of the Fifth Amendment: no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law is evident. There have been multiple scandals involving the Patriot Act, the most scandalous being the Snowden Watergate. The Snowden Watergate was a legendary whistleblowing hurrah that exposed the Bush and Obama administrations of abusing Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The Bush administration allowed the NSA, the National Security Agency, to collect Metadata which, “Is all the information surrounding a call, including the caller's number, the receiver's number, the time and location of the call, and how long it lasted” (Guardian). This information was secretly stolen from millions of Americans without consent; this criminal act would have continued on and emails and phone data would have been spied on and
When the FBI has even the slightest viable evidence, a Nation Security Letter can be signed and approved by certain FBI agents which allows access to both criminals and suspects. A clear violation of the Fifth Amendment: no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law is evident. There have been multiple scandals involving the Patriot Act, the most scandalous being the Snowden Watergate. The Snowden Watergate was a legendary whistleblowing hurrah that exposed the Bush and Obama administrations of abusing Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The Bush administration allowed the NSA, the National Security Agency, to collect Metadata which, “Is all the information surrounding a call, including the caller's number, the receiver's number, the time and location of the call, and how long it lasted” (Guardian). This information was secretly stolen from millions of Americans without consent; this criminal act would have continued on and emails and phone data would have been spied on and