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Article: Civil liberties groups criticize USA PATRIOT ACT
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- June 24, 2003
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Chris Gillon
University Wire
06-24-2003
(The Daily Campus) (U-WIRE) STORRS, Conn. -- The recently enacted USA PATRIOT Act is being criticized by many, who say it infringes on peoples' privacy.
The act allows the government to view records of people who have checked books out of libraries.
An acronym for "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism," the USA PATRIOT Act is several hundred pages long and is aimed at helping law enforcement to investigate suspected terror activities with haste.
President George W. Bush, along with Attorney General John Ashcroft, advocated the new law immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade ...