Key Provisions of the USA Patriot Act

Section 201 -- Gives federal officials the authority to
 intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications
 relating to terrorism.

Section 202 -- Gives federal officials the authority to
 intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications
 relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.

Subsection 203(b) -- Permits the sharing of grand jury
 information that involves foreign intelligence or
 counterintelligence with federal law enforcement,
 intelligence, protective,immigration, national
 defense or national security officials.

Subsection 203(d) -- Gives foreign intelligence or
 counterintelligence officers the ability to share
 foreign intelligence information obtained as part
 of a criminal investigation with law enforcement.

Section 204 -- Makes clear that nothing in the law
 regarding pen registers -- an electronic device
 which records all numbers dialed from a particular
 phone line -- stops the government's ability to0
 obtain foreign intelligence information.

Section 206 -- Allows federal officials to issue roving
 "John Doe" wiretaps, which allow investigators to
 listen in on any telephone and tap any computer they
 think a suspected spy or terrorist might use.

Section 207 -- Increases the amount of time that federal
 officials may watch people they suspect are spies or
 terrorists.

Section 209 -- Permits the seizure of voicemail messages
 under a warrant.

Permits Internet service providers and
 other electronic communication and remote computing
 service providers to hand over records and e-mails
 to federal officials in emergency situations.

Section 214 -- Allows use of a pen register or trap and
 trace devices that record originating phone numbers
 of all incoming calls in international terrorism or
 spy investigations.

Section 215 -- Authorizes federal officials to obtain
 "tangible items" like business records, including
 those from libraries and bookstores,for foreign
 intelligence and international terrorism
 investigations.

Section 217 -- Makes it lawful to intercept the wire or
 electronic communication of a computer hacker or
 intruder in certain circumstances.

Section 218 -- Allows federal officials to wiretap or
 watch suspects if foreign intelligence gathering is
 a "significant purpose" for seeking a Federal
 Intelligence Surveillance Act order. The pre-Patriot
 Act standard said officials could ask for the
 surveillance only if it was the sole or main purpose.

Section 220 -- Provides for nationwide service of search
 warrants for electronic evidence.

Section 223 -- Amends the federal criminal code to provide
 for administrative discipline of federal officers or
 employees who violate prohibitions against unauthorized
 disclosures of information gathered under this act.

Section 225 -- Amends FISA to prohibit lawsuits against
 people or companies that provide information to federal
 officials for a terrorism investigation.

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