Maybe they have the power to investigate terrorism; Congress should have the ability to ensure that the FBI does not overreach. The Patriot Act even gave the FBI the power to extract an unlimited number of corporate documents such as sensitive files such as medical, library and bookstore records, with a secret court order issued without any factual demonstration of necessity. The only possible way to improve the situation would be to limit some of its power to the FBI and allow it to only obtain files on people suspected of being terrorists. They should not get the entire database of information on innocent people. This means that the government exceeds its limits and does not remain in its power because the Patriot Act was passed to reduce terrorist attacks, so as not to spy on innocent people and end up arresting them for no apparent reason because they are innocent. The FBI investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a statute expanded by the Patriot Act, was made public with almost no information. The FBI should provide more public information about the techniques so that the public is informed about how much information is being obtained on citizens. The Patriot Act contains domestic terrorism, so broad that someone who commits it a
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