The USA Freedom Act (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015, that restored and modified key provisions of the Patriot Act. The USA Freedom Act acronym stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act.” For this writing assignment, you are to explain three issues: (1) What reforms the Act allows for regarding the retention of telephonic metadata? (2) As compared to its predecessor, the Patriot Act, did the Act increase, decrease, or maintain status quo for, the authority of intelligence agencies to engage in surveillance? (3) What is the “minimization requirement” for electronic surveillance? A. Your research paper needs to be based on research from academic peer reviewed articles from scholarly journals. Therefore, the assignment requires a minimum of three academic peer reviewed articles from scholarly journals. DO NOT USE as sources the textbook, nor .org, .gov, and .com “publications” from governmental organizations or from non-governmental organizations. A “doi.org” publication from a scholastic journal is acceptable.