What does it mean this phrase? "..USA PATRIOT Act."

"Oleg" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]Hi, I found this phrase in the document of VISA int. "November 2003 Visa International Operating Regulations in Support of ... is the USA PATRIOT Act? (Big and small letters are as in texts) Who knows, tell me know about it.[/nq]
Here's the Patriot Act:

[nq:1]Hi, I found this phrase in the document of VISA int. "November 2003 Visa International Operating Regulations in Support of USA PATRIOT Act Compliance Obligations" I can't understand this. It is a head of article. Maybe, this phrase consists of some more simple clause?[/nq]
It's an example of why people shouldn't write English by piling up nouns. Try "Visa International's Operating Regula

"Jerry Friedman" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

[nq:1]or . Thus "USA PATRIOT" is an acronym.[/nq]
A contrived acronym, of the sort where they made up the acronym first and then looked for words for it to stand for.

[nq:1]What is the USA PATRIOT Act? (Big and small letters are as in texts) Who knows, tell me know about it. Thanks in advance. Igor.[/nq]
Hi Igor. How is Oleg, by the way?
The Patriot Act is a piece of legislation
titled H. R. 3162, passed by the US senate
October 24, 2001.
A big fellow like yourself ought to be able
to type "Patriot Act" into Google. You'll find
enoug

[nq:1]A quick Google tells me it's, believe it or not, "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (Oct. 25, 2001)"[/nq]
(snip)
[nq:1]It's a law intended to strengthen the U.S. government's powers to prevent and punish terrorism. Congress passed it with little ... Pentagon, but many people now criticize it as giving the

[nq:1]Glancing at the headlines from October, 2001 show things like "The Fourth Amendment Has Just Been Cancelled" ...[/nq]
Usenet writing really *is* like casual speech sometimes, isn't it? If you wanted to make that formally correct without changing any words, you'd have to insert something like ", one sees that they" before "show".

Mark Brader, Toronto "Suspicion breeds confidence.

[nq:2]Glancing at the headlines from October, 2001 show things like "The Fourth Amendment Has Just Been Cancelled" ...[/nq]
[nq:1]Usenet writing really *is* like casual speech sometimes, isn't it? If you wanted to make that formally correct without changing any words, you'd have to insert something like ", one sees that they" before "show".[/nq]
Yeah. If you're willing to add an "s" onto "

[nq:2]there will soon be none of that thing[/nq]
[nq:2]for nothing.[/nq]
[nq:1]http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ > P.J. O'Rourke[/nq]
I was one of those criticizing it while resting secure in the belief that my senators, but probably not my congressman, would vote against the nasty thing. Boy, was I wrong!
Cece

Thanks to you and Cece for the correction.

Jerry Friedman

[nq:1]A contrived acronym, of the sort where they made up the acronym first and then looked for words for it to stand for.[/nq]
It could be worse. They could have derived their objectives from whatever words they happened to come up with.