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Only seven weeks after the September 11 attacks, the USA Patriot Act was passed
by a lopsided House vote, passed by a near-unanimous Senate vote, and signed
into law. The broad act contained 161 sections intended to strengthen law enforcement
and improve intelligence gathering to keep America secure in the "war" on terrorism.
Now, as many of these sections are scheduled to sunset at the end of 2005, the
act has come under renewed scrutiny. In Rethinking the Patriot Act, Stephen
J. Schulhofer examines the successes and failures of the Patriot Act, with an
eye towards which sections should be retained and which should be allowed to
expire.
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Stephen J. Schulhofer is the Robert B. McKay Professor of Law at New
York University Law School. From 1986 until 2000, he was director of the Center
for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago, where he was the
Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, and he served for many years as a consultant
to the United States Sentencing Commission. He is the author of The
Enemy Within: Intelligence Gathering, Law Enforcement, and Civil Liberties in
the Wake of September 11 (The Century Foundation Press, 2002).
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Taking Note
