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Former CIA GC Memo to Intel Cmte. Challenges Legal Authority For Domestic Surveillance

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On January 3, 2006 Jeffrey H. Smith, a former General Counsel of the CIA and a former General Counsel of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a 16 page memorandum to the Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, addressing the legal authorities regarding warrantless surveillance of U.S. persons. His conclusion – “The 2001 [Authority for the Military Use of Force] AMUF does not, in my view, justify warrantless electonic surveillance of U.S. persons…”
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