Pros And Cons Of Domestic Spying (Patriot Act)

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Domestic Spying (Patriot Act)
The domestic spying program was implemented by the President of the United States of America just immediately after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.The National Security Agency was mandated to conduct a spying program on the citizens, the instructed the telecommunication companies in the USA such as AT, MCI and T to trap phone calls, monitor movements, locate street address, and also provide the names of their customers. NSA was reported on spending close to two billion dollars in Utah for the construction of a data center which collected information of the USA citizens (Bamford 32). In the 1970s American citizens were worried about how the

The NSA is mandated to focus on the external threats. The NSA and other intelligence agencies are also controlled by law; law created by the FISA court created by the Foreign Surveillance Act of 1978 which dictates what is legal and illegal; for intelligence agencies to do. The most important activity the NSA has done to help the citizens is through the collection of metadata, this has enabled the agency to collect information on whom one is communicating with, the text messages that are sent and received and where one is located and what he is doing at that particular time. In the Cities, domestic surveillance is used to trap those who are speeding and red light runners through the use of automated cameras. It is evident that the police are using cameras with face recognition technology in Washington to monitor Federal buildings, street subway and other locations in the town. The citizens are in agreement with this act since the cameras are in public places where people’s faces are visible (Volokh

Before 9/11it is evident that the Bush administration had the privilege to seek the blanket dismissal challenging the warrantless spying program. The FBI conducted an intensive research and found that the half of the murder cases in the USA go unsolved since they have invented better invasion tactics to avoid law enforcement. It is reported in the article written by Scripps Howard the government has to employ the method of wiretapping to convict the criminals who involve I homicide activities, the wiretapping method used by the FBI has also helped the government to convict drug barons who smuggle drugs on the streets. Wiretapping has also been used to ensure the safety of the bombing of American subways. Through the use of this method the police could manage to prevent the bombing of a New York subway by the Najibullah Zazi which is one of the busiest mass transit systems this enabled the government to identify that the Zazi suspicion trips to Pakistan made the USA identify that they belonged to the Al-Qaeda terror