The American Constitution gives U.S. citizens basic civil liberties that provide protection from the federal government through the Bill of Rights and the Amendments added throughout American history. However, the national government has repeatedly taken away these significant liberties during a war, and in this era the government’s war on terrorism stirs up controversy all over the globe after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Supporters of the government’s detainment of non-citizens and the NSA’s surveillance of data Internet Service Providers--for example, claim that being secure and safe takes priority over established values. In the anthology Rereading America, Gary Colombo’s The Myth of Freedom;