Continued Oversight of the USA PATRIOT Act, Senate Judiciary Committee, May 10, 2005 Testimony: Bob Barr, David Cole, Danile P. Collins, James X. Dempsey, Andrew C. McCarthy, Suzanne E. Spaulding Member Statements: Patrick Leahy – “Legitimate concerns have been raised about various powers granted by the PATRIOT Act, not so much for how they have… Continue Reading
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Oversight Hearing on Implementation of PATRIOT Act: Section 212–Emergency Disclosure of Electronic Communications
House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Oversight Hearing on the “Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Section 212–Emergency Disclosure of Electronic Communications to Protect Life and Limb,” May 5, 2005 Witness statements: William Moschella, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice; Willie T. Hulon, Assistant Director of Counterrorism Division, Federal… Continue Reading
Hearing on PATRIOT Act: Criminal Wiretaps and Delayed Notice Search Warrants
House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Sections 201, 202, 223 of the Act that Address Criminal Wiretaps, and Section 213 of the Act that Addresses Delayed Notice, May 3, 2005. Statement by Chairman Coble Statements of Michael Sullivan, United States… Continue Reading
Groups Respond to Attacks on Public Libraries During PATRIOT Act Hearings
As a follow-up to my April 28, 2005 posting on PATRIOT Act hearings in which U.S. Attorney (DC) Kenneth L. Wainstein testified that 9/11 hijackers used public libraries, the following relevant information: ACLU and Librarians Decry Patriot Act Library Testimony Patriot Act’s Library Provisions Examined in Congressional Hearings Protect the records of what we read,… Continue Reading
Tri-Partisan Patriot Act Reform Caucus Formed
Press release: “U.S. Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., Thursday became a founding member of the tri-partisan Patriot Act Reform Caucus. Passed weeks after the September 11 attacks, the sweeping anti-terrorism law has increasingly come under criticism from the left and the right. The law included 16 provisions that expire at the end of 2005. Other members… Continue Reading
Advocacy Group Seeks Disclosure of FBI Docs on PATRIOT Act
“In a complaint (pdf) filed this week, EPIC asked a federal court to force the FBI to disclose information about its use of expanded investigative authority granted by sunsetting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.” Continue Reading
Hearings on PATRIOT Act Continue
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA). Part II, April 28, 2005. Witness testimony: Kenneth L. Wainstein, Interim U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia; Robert S. Khuzami, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York. 4/28/2005 – Sensenbrenner Statement Regarding… Continue Reading
Intelligence Cmte. Hearing on PATRIOT Act
U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence, hearing on USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, April 27, 2005. Statements of Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States and Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Porter J. Goss Director, Central Intelligence Agency ACLU Says Excessive Secrecy Surrounds Controversial Patriot Act; Calls on Senate… Continue Reading
Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Sections of the Act that Address–Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). (Part 1) Section 204: Clarification of Intelligence Exceptions from Limitations on Interception & Disclosure of Wire, Oral & Electronic Communications; Section 207: Duration of FISA Surveillance of… Continue Reading
Senate Intelligence Cmte. Hearing on PATRIOT Act
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act, April 19, 2005. Links to testimony. Continue Reading
PATRIOT Act Oversight Hearing
PATRIOT Act Oversight Hearing on Section 203 (b) and (d) of the USA-PATRIOT, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Tuesday, April 19, 2005: Chairman’s Opening Statement: “As part of the USA PATRIOT Act, Congress included a sunset provision on certain new authorities in the Act. Two of these provisions, sections 203(b) and 203(d),… Continue Reading
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56), March 2005, Office of the Inspector General. “Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice… Continue Reading
