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Originally Posted by GatorB
Keep telling yourself that.
Go to your local library check out 3 books about
Book A) on Islamic Fundamentalism
Book B) Terrorism
Book C) Chemisty
And see if the FBI doesn't come kncking on your door. Now EXPLAIN to me how a totally innocnet person gets the 3rd degree from the FBI if these laws on apply to the guilty?
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The FBI had the authority to investigate what a "suspect" was perusing at a Library prior to 9/11 and indeed excerised that authority on multiple occasions...as the Director stated in his testimony before the Senate hearing. He further stated...when asked by a Senator...how many times had the FBI asked for the library records of any "suspects" since the enactment of the Patriot Act...that they had never asked for library records using the Patriot Act as an authority to do so...but that in fact on at least two different occasions...their agency had been contacted by Libraries suggesting that they may want to look into the activities of certain individuals.
The Patriot Act brought together existing laws...clarified them for the agencies involved...so that any ambiguity in the laws that existed among the agencies/agents prior to 9/11...would be removed...thus strengthening the laws.
Where did I state that "these laws only apply to the guilty"? These laws apply to individuals that have displayed suspicious behavior "suspects" who may or may not in fact be "guilty" of any crime or involved in any "terrorist" activity. Only in a court of law can "guilt" be determined and the enforcing agencies of law/the Patriot Act are not the Courts.