Central Intelligence Agency, The | The CIA Should Not Be Granted Expanded Powers to Fight Terrorism
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Summary: In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, Congress passed the USA-PATRIOT Act, which grants the CIA expanded powers to fight terrorism. This act allows the CIA to spy on Americans by permitting a vast array of domestic information gathering from school records, Internet activity, and telephone conversations. The act removes the safeguards established by the Church Committee in the 1970s, which curtailed the CIA’s domestic...
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