Act Quote by Barton Gellman

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for…

— Anonymous

The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet…

— Kevin Mitnick

I provided all my emails that could possibly be work related [to FBI].

— Hillary Clinton

The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to…

— Dennis Kucinich

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers…

— Jonathan Zittrain

USA Freedom Act did, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies…

— Marco Rubio

“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same…

— Tim Weiner

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's…

— Max Cavalera

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

— John Ashcroft

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was…

— John Ashcroft

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that…

— Michael K. Simpson