!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] or [Abuse of Power] as described here is in relation to the [Usurpations] of power by a [Government] rather than a single [Natural Person] or [Malfeasance]

Some of the [United States] [{$pagename}]
* Warrantless Wiretapping - the [National Security Agency] was tapping into telephone calls of Americans without a warrant, in violation of [United States Federal Law] and the [United States Constitution]. 
* Torture, Kidnapping and Detention — In the years since 9/11, our [United States federal government] has illegally kidnapped, detained and tortured numerous prisoners. The [United States federal government] continues to claim that it has the power to designate anyone, including [Citizens] as "enemy combatants" without charge.
* Growing [Surveillance] Society — In perhaps the greatest assault on the privacy of ordinary Americans, the country is undergoing a rapid expansion of data collection, storage, tracking, and mining.
* [United States PATRIOT Act] Several provisions of the [United States PATRIOT Act] were set to expire at the end of [2005|Year 2005] and, despite opposition from across the political spectrum and more than 400 community and state resolutions expressing concern about the [United States PATRIOT Act], [United States Congress] reauthorized the law without reforming its most flawed provisions to bring these extraordinary powers back in line with the [United States Constitution]. 
* Government Secrecy - [United States federal government] has reclassified and increased secrecy by [United States Federal Agency] (including the expansion of a catch-all category of "[Sensitive But Unclassified]")
* [REAL ID] - rammed through [United States Congress] by being attached to a unrelated, "must pass" bill, lays the foundation for a [National ID] card and makes it more difficult for persecuted people to seek asylum. Under the [law], states are required to standardize their [Driver Licenses] (according to a still undetermined standard) and link to [Government Data Store] to be shared with every [United States federal government], [US State] and local government official in every other [US State].
* [No-Fly] List was established to keep track of people the [United States federal government] prohibits from traveling because they have been labeled as [security] risks. Since 9/11 the number of similar watch lists has mushroomed to about 720,000 names, all with mysterious or ill-defined criteria for how names are placed on the lists, and with little recourse for innocent travelers seeking to be taken off them. 
* Political [Surveillance] - [United States Federal Agency] agencies — including the [FBI] and the [United States Department of Defense] — have conducted their own [spying] on innocent and law-abiding American [Citizens]. 
* Abuse of Material Witness Statute — In the days and weeks after 9/11, the government gathered and detained many people — mostly [Muslims] in the [United States] — through the abuse of a narrow federal technicality that permits the arrest and brief detention of "material witnesses," or those who have important information about a crime. 
* Attacks on Academic Freedom The [United States federal government]has used a provision in the [United States PATRIOT Act] to engage in a policy of "censorship at the border" to keep scholars with perceived political views the administration does not like out of the United States. !! More Information
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