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C. To give police and the government more power to protect security
The aim of the PATRIOT Act is to Unite and Strengthen America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. It marked a change in surveillance laws by providing the law enforcement agencies with increased powers.
C. To give police and the government more power to protect security. In the fallout of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government passed a bill that was circulating since little after the event, giving the FBI more vigilance power by use of the National Security Letters; in essence, the bill gave the authorization to surveillance agencies to monitor more freely U.S. citizens in search of terrorist treats.