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Article: The consequences of enlisting federal grand juries in the war on terrorism: assessing the USA Patriot Act's changes to grand jury secrecy.
- Article from:
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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I. INTRODUCTION
The antiterrorism bill passed by Congress in the wake of the September 11 attacks, called the USA PATRIOT Act, (1) contains a subtle but important change to federal grand jury procedure as part of an effort to bring about increased coordination between law enforcement, national security, and defense efforts. Matters occurring before federal grand juries have historically been kept secret. Disclosure of grand jury materials has been permitted only to those directly involved in the enforcement of federal criminal law or by court order under sharply limited circumstances. The USA PATRIOT Act relaxes the secrecy rules to permit, for the first time, ...