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Big Data Analytics USA Patriot Act
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The USA PATRIOT Act: Preserving Life and Liberty
(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism)
Congress enacted the Patriot Act by overwhelming, bipartisan margins, arming law
enforcement with new tools to detect and prevent terrorism: The USA Patriot Act was
passed nearly unanimously by the Senate 98-1, and 357-66 in the House, with the support
of members from across the political spectrum.
The Act Improves Our Counter-Terrorism Efforts in Several Significant Ways:
1. The Patriot Act allows investigators to use the tools that were already available to
investigate organized crime and drug trafficking. Many of the tools the Act provides to
law enforcement to fight terrorism have been used for decades to fight organized crime
and drug dealers, and have been reviewed and approved by the courts. As Sen. Joe
Biden (D-DE) explained during the floor debate about the Act, "the FBI could get a
wiretap to investigate the mafia, but they could not get one to investigate terrorists. To
put it bluntly, that was crazy! What's good for the mob should be good for terrorists."
(Cong. Rec., 10/25/01)
● Allows law enforcement to use surveillance against more crimes of terror. Before
the Patriot Act, courts could permit law enforcement to conduct electronic
surveillance to investigate many ordinary, non-terrorism crimes, such as drug
crimes, mail fraud, and passport fraud. Agents also could obtain wiretaps to
investigate some, but not all, of the crimes that terrorists often commit. The Act
enabled investigators to gather information when looking into the full range of
terrorism-related crimes, including: chemical-weapons offenses, the use of
weapons of mass destruction, killing Americans abroad, and terrorism financing.
● Allows federal agents to follow sophisticated terrorists trained to evade detection.
For years, law enforcement has been able to use "roving wiretaps" to investigate
ordinary crimes, including drug offenses and racketeering. A roving wiretap can
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