VANCOUVER, Wash. Washington State University Vancouver will host The War on Terror and the New Police State, a presentation by Thomas H. Nelson, at 12:10 p.m. March 5 in the Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110. The event is free and open to the public.
Nelson is a Portland-area lawyer whose representation of several clients wrongly suspected of terrorism has made him an expert on the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, more commonly known as the USA PATRIOT Act. Among Nelsons former clients is Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon lawyer wrongly suspected of involvement in the 2004 coordinated terrorist bombings in Madrid.
Nelsons talk will focus on the USA PATRIOT Act, an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2001. The act greatly expands the FBIs and other federal agencies powers to search homes and businesses and to obtain records without consent or knowledge. It has come under increasing criticism following former CIA employee and National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowdens exposure of secret documents that revealed that the NSA, under the power of the USA PATRIOT Act, collected the telephone records of virtually all Americans.
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