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National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002

National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002 definition - hacker

(legal term)

In 2002, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, D-CT, brought in the National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002 to set up the Department of National Homeland Security and the National Office for Combating Terrorism. The Act was sent to the Committee on Governmental Affairs on May 2, 2002, and on June 24, 2002, it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar. It was never passed in this form. For additional information on creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), see H.R. 5005, which became Public Law 107-296 on November 22, 2002.

See Also: Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Terrorism.

Center for Democracy and Technology. Legislation Affecting the Internet. [Online, July 28, 2004.] Center for Democracy and Technology Website. http://www.cdt.org/ legislation/107th/wiretaps/.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
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