“Do you personally know anyone who has been charged with a crime from information gathered under the Patriot Act? If so, did they commit a crime?”
Wrong question...
” The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Today, you do not even know what is in the tens of thousands of pages of laws. As soon as you are deemed an enemy of those in power, your collected history can be searched to find out just how you have violated the laws - stretching back decades.
I think my question was a valid one. The subject of this thread and many others is the effect of the Patriot Act on our Civil Rights. So, I’ll ask again, does Anybody know Anyone who has been targeted by an intelligence agency operating under the Patriot Act? If so, what triggered it and what was the outcome?