Patriot Act
Once passed in 2001, section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act greatly expanded the use of the NSL, allowing their use in seeking any information relevant to an investigation of terrorism or clandestine intelligence activity. It also granted the privilege to other federal agencies, presumably to allow the department of Homeland Security the same ability to use NSLs. In January 2007 The New York Times reported that both the Pentagon and the CIA have been issuing national security letters. The Patriot Act reauthorization statutes passed during the 109th Congress added specific penalties for non-compliance or disclosure.
Read more about this topic: National Security Letter
Famous quotes containing the words patriot and/or act:
““My country, right or wrong” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying “My mother, drunk or sober.””
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.
Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice
To make dreams truths and fables histories;
Enter these arms, for since thou thought’st it best
Not to dream all my dream, let’s act the rest.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)