On Oct. 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law. The bill was approved with little debate in Congress; broader discussion about the Act’s impact on civil liberties only came later. These articles look at how the legislation and other post-9/11 measures limited public access to information, eroded privacy and expanded electronic surveillance–and why this lingering legacy still makes it harder for journalists to source and report the news.
