The Usa Patriot Act: A Legal Analysis

By Doyle, Charles

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Title:	The Usa Patriot Act: A Legal Analysis
Author:	Doyle, Charles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Doyle, C. (n.d.). The Usa Patriot Act: A Legal Analysis. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Introduction: Congress passed the USA Patriot Act (the Act) in response to the terrorists’ attacks of September 11, 2001. The Act gives federal officials greater authority to track and intercept communications, both for law enforcement and foreign intelligence gathering purposes. It vests the Secretary of the Treasury with regulatory powers to combat corruption of U.S. financial institutions for foreign money laundering purposes. It seeks to further close our borders to foreign terrorists and to detain and remove those within our borders. It creates new crimes, new penalties, and new procedural efficiencies for use against domestic and international terrorists. Although it is not without safeguards, critics contend some of its provisions go too far. Although it grants many of the enhancements sought by the Department of Justice, others are concerned that it does not go far enough.

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Criminal Investigations: Tracking and Gathering Communications . . . . . . . 2 Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Communications Records and Stored E-Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Electronic Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Criminal Investigators’ Access to Foreign Intelligence Information . . . 8 Protective Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Foreign Intelligence Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 FISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Access to Law Enforcement Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Increasing Institutional Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Money Laundering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 International Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Forfeiture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Alien Terrorists and Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Border Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Detention and Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Other Crimes, Penalties, & Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 New crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 New Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Other Procedural Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Increasing Institutional Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74