Kate Martin is the director of the
Center for National Security Studies. She is an expert in national security and civil liberties issues, including government secrecy, intelligence, terrorism, and enemy combatant detentions. She was formerly a lecturer at
Georgetown University Law School
The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...
, and has also worked in the position of general counsel to the National Security Archive, a research library located at
George Washington University
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. She is currently a member of the
Constitution Project
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's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committe
From:
USA PATRIOT Act, Title II
The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, each containing numerous sections. Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures granted increased powers of s ...
Section 203
Kate Martin, the director of the Center for National Security Studies, argued that section 203 and 905 should be modified as she maintains the Act fails to discriminate between information gathered between terrorist and non-terrorist investigations. She believes that the Act should be modified to include some privacy safeguards: before information is gathered she believes that the court should approve the information transfer to make sure that it is necessary for ongoing activities by the agencies involved; that information shared should be limited to information relevant to investigations into terrorism; that only those people who have access to such information should actually need it to do their jobs (currently those who are not directly related to the investigation can gain access to the information); and information gathered should be marked as confidential and measures put into place to stop the inappropriate dissemination of such information.
Her views were opposed by Viet Dinh, who believed that such alterations would hinder terrorism investigations.
References
Kate Martin short biography
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American legal scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Georgetown University Law Center faculty
George Washington University faculty
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