The Patriot Act Analytical Essay by Top Papers

This paper shall explain the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001 and its subsequent USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005. The paper outlines how these are very complex pieces of legislation covering a wide range of surveillance activities, transfer of fund monitoring , criminal code revisions and other provisions aimed at preventing a repeat of the attacks of September 11th, 2001. The paper discusses how these Acts are not without their detractors and those that feel they are a threat to civil liberties, as well as the proponents that look to the failure of the perpetrators to revisit their destructive goals upon the citizens of the United States.