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Times Record
March 17, 2018
She cheerfully mentored new tellers and resolved a wide variety of issues that puzzled others, ensuring compliance with The Bank Security Act, The Patriot Act, and layers of complicated regulations. She tried to say goodbye to all her customers, but one old-timer became upset this week after learning heÃâà...
HuffPost
March 17, 2018
In New York, for instance, the state Education Department includes Iraq only as one line in a subsection of its standards for teaching the role of the U.S. in the world post-1990. Iraq is grouped with the Sept. 11 attacks and the Patriot Act as part of teaching about America's war on terror. Students are asked toÃâà...
Artvoice
March 17, 2018
Needless to say, the terror of America, being viewed under attack on television, cleared the way for the passage of the otherwise seemingly impossible to pass Patriot Act. It might be a coincidence but the Patriot Act suspends the constitutional rights of the people and expands the federal government's andÃâà...
Florida Today
March 16, 2018
If complicit, then the secret FISA Court, created by the Patriot Act following 9/11, is as dangerous to our liberties as many of us warned it would be. Gary Beatty lives in Sharpes and is retired from 30 years as an assistant state attorney in Brevard County. He has a doctorate in law and is certified in criminalÃâà...
The Daily Freeman
March 16, 2018
I began making calls to the bank and eventually got an explanation: The bank was looking into whether my wife and I were laundering money, as they are required to by the Bank Secrecy Act as amended by the Patriot Act. Advertisement. Money laundering! There isn't enough money passing through myÃâà...
WFMY News 2
March 15, 2018
The NSA also used Section 215 of the Patriot Act anti-terrorism law to secretly collect metadata from the phone records of millions of Americans not suspected of any terrorist ties. That program, revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, led Congress to pass a law in 2015 halting the massÃâà...
NewsFactor Network
March 8, 2018
Regulations supported on the one platform include the US Patriot Act, the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive 4 (AMLD 4), Foreign Account Tax and Compliance Act (FACTA), Common Reporting Standards (CRS), Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Anti-Money Laundering and CounterÃâà...
LSU Now
March 8, 2018
It is hypocritical for U.S. citizens to accuse any gun reform as infringement of the Second Amendment, but stay silent when minorities lose their Fourth Amendment rights through methods like the Patriot Act and “broken windows” policing. Advocates of a strict constitution protest government intervention inÃâà...
Madisonville Meteor
March 7, 2018
Don't think this is a lewd or lascivious column; this is about rights, and dignity, and things of that nature. I had occasion to travel to San Diego on business. Leaving from Austin (I like smaller airports), we of course went through airport security, and it was actually a breeze. But most of you have a horror storyÃâà...
Massillon Independent
March 3, 2018
... Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, Departments of Education and Interior, Science Committee deputy staff director (working with the International Space Station), served as principle House negotiator on the USA Patriot Act, staff committee on House Administration and the Select Committee on Benghazi.
seattlepi.com (blog)
March 2, 2018
This is the second part of my interview with Eric Anders, whose anti-Trump concept album, Eleven Nine, piqued my interest to find out his motivation and songwriting process behind it. I really like your new album, Eleven Nine, which you describe as your "patriot act." Please explain what you mean byÃâà...
St. Helens Chronicle
March 1, 2018
To complicate this further, after 9/11 the government passed the Patriot Act and established the Homeland Security Department and forced police departments nationwide to carry assault rifles, high capacity pistols and wear ballistic vests and other tactical gear. Basically law enforcement is looking moreÃâà...
KATU
March 1, 2018
Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart took steps Wednesday to restrict gun sales, adding two retail heavyweights to the growing rift between corporate America and the gun lobby. Dick's said it will immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. Its CEO took on the National RifleÃâà...
Lexology
February 19, 2018
On February 13, 2018, the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), pursuant to Section 311 of the PATRIOT Act, seeking to prohibit the opening or maintaining of a correspondent account in the United States for,Ãâà...
Orlando Sentinel
February 16, 2018
Since this is one of the few instances since Timothy McVeigh's crime that the adult suspect was captured alive, can and should he also be charged with terrorism under the Patriot Act? Section 802 of the act expanded the definition of terrorism to cover “domestic” terror. The motive may not ever be known,Ãâà...
Community Advocate
February 15, 2018
While the majority of candidates aligned with Das in emphasizing their mixed feelings about the Patriot Act, Alexandra Chandler took a slightly different approach. In still saying the act needs revision, Chandler cautioned that “we need to apply a scalpel” when amending the Patriot Act. Prior to running forÃâà...
Newsweek
February 12, 2018
Several weeks after the events of 9/11, I was in the West Wing of the White House debating the Patriot Act. I was a technology policy director at the time, and we were discussing the balance between personal liberties—particularly the privacy of our citizenry—against the need to protect America fromÃâà...
Auburn Journal
February 9, 2018
Editor's note: The following news articles have been taken from the Auburn Journal archives with light editing. To comment on Vintage Auburn, contact staff writer Tessa Marguerite at tessam@goldcountrymedia.com. Cutline: Vintage - 2008: Anthony William Bergen discusses the cons of the Patriot Act atÃâà...
The Nation.
February 5, 2018
With the acquiescence of Democrats, the Patriot Act—opposed by only one senator, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin—shot holes through the sensible restrictions on monitoring Americans' communications. First, a bit of history. The Framers, reacting to the British use of writs of assistance to search whole townsÃâà...
Washington Examiner
January 31, 2018
From spying on Martin Luther King Jr. to surveilling Americans citizens under the PATRIOT Act, the FBI has been abusing its powers since its inception in 1908. Politicians routinely turn a blind eye to such misdeeds. So, the sudden interest from congressional Republicans in releasing a memo thatÃâà...
Just Security
October 26, 2017
On this day, 16 years ago, President George W. Bush signed into law the most sweeping, publicly acknowledged domestic surveillance authority in American history. Enacted six weeks after the 9/11 attacks and over the vehement objections and warnings of civil libertarians, the bill passed the Senate 98-1Ãâà...
Craig Daily Press
December 31, 1999
The George W. Bush administration rammed the Patriot Act down our country's throat, while misleading the public into believing that losing some liberties is a fair trade for additional security. Several areas of the Patriot Act deal specifically with your privacy and must be reviewed and either suspended orÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
December 31, 1999
It's time to label the National Rifle Association (NRA) a domestic terrorist organization under the U.S. Patriot Act. The NRA is a deplorable domestic terrorist organization that hides behind the Second Amendment and the interests of a small but vocal and threatening minority, while putting the vast majority ofÃâà...
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