The war on terror was a new war because usually when you think about war we have a specific enemy. This was mainly about surveillance without borders, so they never really gave a specific country, it was loosely explained. This is something argued by P. Williams. So instead of combat it was more so surveillance or roving wiretaps on the American people which made people feel like the 4th amendment, which is the opposition of unlawful search and seizes. The Patriot Act allowed officers to come into people’s homes without notifying them. This, in my opinion, was the start of the American government expanding its power within the country and lessening the protection that comes from the Bill of Rights.