POL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Relative Deprivation, National Security Letter, Investigative Data Warehouse

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 103
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Exercise of power: the state has a legitimate monopoly on the use of force, the use of force is supposed to be regulated by law. The growing surveillance society in perhaps the greatest assault on the privacy of ordinary americans, the country is undergoing a rapid expansion of data collection, storage, tracking, and mining. The fbi"s investigative data warehouse, as an example, has grown to over 560 million records. The patriot act - justice department"s inspector general found that the fbi has issued hundreds of thousands of national security letters, a majority against u. s. persons, and many without any connection to terrorism at all. In september 2007, the aclu won a landmark victory when a judge struck down the national security letter provision of the patriot act because part of the statute violated both the first amendment and the separation of powers doctrine. Capturing and punishing criminals those who violate the rights of others.