Results for “Patriot”

…President Bush’s own Justice Department then held that such surveillance was illegal, Congress passed a revision of the Patriot Act in 2007 that effectively legalize the “Stellar Wind” surveillance program on condition that the NSA obtain a FISA warrant for it that would be perio...

… The pressure on Shamir was all the greater because the Ramat Gan attack had come within range of one of the Americans’ Patriot batteries. The Patriots had been originally designed not as anti-missile weapons, but to attack aircraft, and they seemed to have been ineffective. Nor...

…the loss of state secrets, uncontested facts remain in extremely short- supply. The opinion-laden appellatives such as “patriot” and “traitor” that have tended to fill the gap in the great divide do little to address the important mystery of how many thousands of state secrets we...

…t given thought to how to respond to a national emergency to cope with a kakistocratic seizure of emergency powers? The Patriot Act was on a 'shelf as you know, ready to be used. What should the better folks in this country have at hand if, say, a port is subject to a radiologica...