Patriot Act

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Bush says those on 'front line' of terror fight rely on Patriot Act
This article was written on Friday, June 10.Basically, it is about renewing the provisions of the Patriot Act, which was created by George W. Bush shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Patriot Act allowed expanded surveillance of terror suspects. It “increased use of material witness warrants to hold suspects incommunicado and permitted secret proceedings in immigration cases.” In a nutshell, Bush's' speech was this; “one of the most important tools to combat terror is the Patriot Act... The Patriot Act has helped save American lives and it has protected American liberties. For the sake of our national security, the United States Congress needs to renew all the provisions of the Patriot Act, and this time, Congress needs to make those provisions permanent.” I completely agree with Bush. In the last few years of the Patriot Act, we have lost no civil liberties, and from my point of view, it has been working. How many attacks have we undergone since this enactment? So we have to wait in a little bit longer of a line at the airport, and we get frustrated with spy ware invading our computers, etc. These are small prices to pay for the feeling of security from terrorism. Better said by Bush, “it doesn't make any sense to me, that if something is working, why should it expire?”
This article also goes on about the later part of the Presidents speech, when he named members of an oversight board being created to make sure that the government's counter terror investigations and arrests don't interfere with privacy rights and civil liberties....