Topic > Patriot Act - 583

The USA Patriot Act is very important to everyone in the United States of America. There are many people who act in an anti-patriot manner because they believe it violates constitutional rights. At the same time, there are huge numbers of people acting on behalf of the patriot with home front security as their number one priority. This act was very instrumental in giving our intelligence agencies the tools necessary to intercept terrorist messages and alert us to possible attacks. The positive aspects of the Patriot Act outweigh the negatives. The good thing is that law enforcement can use the surveillance used by detectives to investigate organized crime and drug traffickers. The Federal Bureau of Investigations can now use wiretaps to investigate possible terrorists when previously it could only use them to investigate organized crime and drug traffickers. The Patriot Act allowed law enforcement or investigative agencies to gather information when looking into terrorism-related crimes, including: chemical weapons crimes, use of weapons of mass destruction, killing of Americans abroad, and terrorist financing . The law allowed the FBI to seek court authorization to use the same actions in national security investigations to track terrorists, such as roving wiretaps. Federal courts under narrow circumstances have allowed law enforcement to delay a person's court-approved search warrant for a limited period of time...