Affirmative:
NBC news reports- www.ie.galegroup.com
-under the post 9/11 Patriot Act, the government had been collecting records on every phone call made in the United States.
Patriot Act- act of congress that was signed by George Bush on October 26, 2001. (Meaning uniting & strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept & obstruct terrorism act)
-The government reassures that only the time and place of the calls were recorded not the actual content.
-tracked Tamerian Tsarnaev’s wife Katherine Russell’s phone call ultimately capturing the criminal.
*Not used for criminal investigations but to protect against terrorists
-Mike Hawash was captured (member of Al Qaeda group “the squad”)
Called someone after returning to the US asking for money and someone in palenstine arranged $2,000 to defendant in China.
-Before the Patriot Act the FBI was forbidden to communicate what they learned with prosecutors and their own criminal investigators.

Negative Aff:
-The government is spying on everyone’s digital and old fashioned communications. www.washingtonsblog.com
-US gov. can take an electronic device, search through all the files, and keep it for a while for further scrutiny- w/o any suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever. www.eff.org
-the fourth amendment to the US constitution protects us against unreasonable gov. searches and seizures. -Show a court probable cause that a crime has been committed and get a warrant.
-The US government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including at&t, has engaged in a massive illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications records of millions of ordinary americans since at least 2001. First reported on by the press and discovered by the public in late 2005. All of these surveillance activities are violated in the privacy safeguards established by congress and the US constitution.
NSA- National Security Agency
Fourth Amendment- liberty and freedom