Patriot Act Section 215 Text

Section 215 of the patriot act section 215 of the usa patriot act allows the government to obtain a secret order from the foreign intelligence surveillance court fisc requiring third parties like telephone companies to hand over any records or other tangible thing if deemed relevant to an international terrorism counterespionage or.

Patriot act section 215 text. 1861 et seq is amended by striking sections 501 through 503 and inserting the following. The usa patriot act passed in 2001 created significant holes in those protections in particular through changes to what is now known as section 215 50 usc 1861. The fbi and nsa use section 215 of the usa patriot act to collect vast amounts of information about people in the united states without a warrant.

History of section 215. At midnight on may 31 2015 section 215 expired. On may 20 2015 paul spoke for ten and a half hours in opposition to the reauthorization of section 215 of the patriot act.

In 2018 under only one of two section 215 provisions the government collected 434 238 543 call records. Section 215 of the usa patriot act 2001 expanded the foreign intelligence surveillance act fisa authority for seizing business records. With the passage of the usa freedom act on june 2 2015 the expired parts of law including section 215 were reported broadly as restored and renewed through 2019.

Bush in october 2001 that significantly expanded the search and surveillance powers of. Usa patriot act also called patriot act in full uniting and strengthening america by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism act of 2001 u s. Section 215 also known as the tangible things or business records provision of the usa patriot act amended section 501 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act and permits the collection of tangible things including books records papers documents and other items for an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information.

That program like its predecessors was shuttered due to unlawful overproduction of records. Title v of the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978 50 u s c. This provision has served as a legal basis for the government s controversial collection of bulk telephone metadata.

Legislation passed by congress in response to the september 11 2001 terrorist attacks and signed into law by pres.