For the vast majority of Americans, there is a belief that the Patriot Act violates their right to privacy and does little to ensure national security. However, this was not the intention of the Bush administration, which passed this law. A week after September 11, 2001, the Bush administration signed the Patriot Act, a law intended to strengthen national security, to ensure that no terrorist attack could ever harm the lives of other Americans. The Patriot Act gave federal law enforcement what they needed to mount an effective, coordinated plan to stop terrorism in the United States. Officials were granted the right to carry out surveillance on the Internet, telephone conversations and public records. Therefore, this law helped the United States during times of national crisis and strengthened the government as a whole. However, it has also drawn strong criticism from many people on the grounds that it inhibits national security. While this may be true, the Patriot Act also makes the national government stronger by ensuring the well-being of its citizens. Therefore, intelligence officials should continue to carry out this act and do everything necessary to understand the intentions of people who wish to harm this country, because if they do not do so another terrorist attack is likely to occur. The advantage of the Patriot Act for the national government is that it allows federal officials to track terrorists who are trained to "cover their tracks" and who know what is needed to avoid detection. This is done so as to ensure that the national government can understand their intentions so that they do not harm this country. The most common method of doing this is wiretapping... center of paper... ns. In turn, the United States would have a peaceful relationship with the nations of the Middle East and even more allies for the future. For the vast majority of American citizens, the Patriot Act does little or nothing to ensure national security and merely violates the right to privacy. of citizens. Beyond that, people believe that the Patriot Act also violates the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, because it allows federal officials to inspect other people without a warrant or probable cause: "In Mayfield v. U.S., a district judge federal government ruled that the two provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act violate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution because they allow surveillance without probable cause. This decision demonstrates that six years after the passage of the Patriot Act, privacy concerns still exist regarding it its use and scope" (Games 1).