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The package makes clear that recipients of National Security Letters have the right to challenge them in court.
• It gives recipients of court-approved subpoenas for information in terrorist investigations the right to challenge a requirement that they refrain from telling anyone.
• It clarifies that most libraries are not subject to demands in those letters for information about suspected terrorists.
• It takes aim at the methamphetamine trade by imposing new restrictions on the sale of over-the- counter cold and allergy medicines, which contain a key ingredient for the drug. Beginning 30 days after President Bush signs the law, expected sometime this week, purchase limits go into effect: One person would be limited to buying 300, 30-mg pills in a month or 120 such pills in a day. The measure would make an exception for “single-use” sales — individually packaged pseudoephedrine products.
By Sept. 30, retailers would be required to sell such medicines from behind the counter and purchasers would have to show ID and sign log books.
• The package also cracks down on port security by imposing tough punishments on crew members who try to stop or mislead law enforcement officials investigating their ships. • Section 201 — Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications relating to terrorism.
• Section 202 — Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.
• Subsection 203(b) — Permits the sharing of grand jury information that involves foreign intelligence or counterintelligence with federal law enforcement, intelligence, protective, immigration, national defense or national security officials.
• Subsection 203(d) — Gives foreign intelligence or counterintelligence officers the ability to share foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a criminal investigation with law enforcement.
• Section 204 — Makes clear that nothing in the law regarding pen registers — an electronic device that records all numbers dialed from a particular phone line — stops the government’s ability to obtain foreign intelligence information.
• Section 206 — Allows federal officials to issue roving “John Doe” wiretaps, which let investigators listen in on any telephone and tap any computer they think a suspected spy or terrorist might use.
• Section 207 — Increases the amount of time federal officials may watch people they suspect are spies or terrorists.
• Section 209 — Permits the seizure of voicemail messages under a warrant.
• Section 212 — Permits Internet service providers and other electronic communication and remote computing service providers to hand over records and e-mails to federal officials in emergency situations.
• Section 214 — Allows use of a pen register or trap and trace devices that record originating phone numbers of all incoming calls in international terrorism or spy investigations.
• Section 215 — Authorizes federal officials to obtain “tangible items” like business records, including those from libraries and bookstores, for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations.
• Section 217 — Makes it lawful to intercept the wire or electronic communication of a computer hacker or intruder in certain circumstances.
• Section 218 — Allows federal officials to wiretap or watch suspects if foreign intelligence gathering is a “significant purpose” for seeking a Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act order. The pre-Patriot Act standard said officials could ask for the surveillance only if it was the sole or main purpose.
• Section 220 — Provides for nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence.
• Section 223 — Amends the federal criminal code to provide for administrative discipline of federal officers or employees who violate prohibitions against unauthorized disclosures of information gathered under this act.
• Section 225 — Amends FISA to prohibit lawsuits against people or companies that provide information to federal officials for a terrorism investigation.

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