The Federal Bureau of Investigations Management of Confidential Case Funds and Telecommunication Costs, Audit Report 08-03, January 2008, For Public Release. “Summary of Findings: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducts undercover activities as part of its mission to detect and deter terrorist attacks and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the laws of the… Continue Reading
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White House: National Strategy for Homeland Security
Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Homeland Security – A Comprehensive Guide For Securing the Homeland: “Today, the President issued an updated National Strategy for Homeland Security, which will serve to guide, organize, and unify our Nation’s homeland security efforts. This Strategy is a national strategy not a Federal strategy and articulates our approach… Continue Reading
Conyers, Reyes Introduce FISA Revision Legislation
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced The Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007 the RESTORE Act,in an effort to address concerns about civil liberty protections in the hastily-enacted Protect America Act that was signed into… Continue Reading
Court Rules Unconstitutional Two Provisions of FISA
EFF: “Today, Judge Ann Aiken of the Oregon Federal District Court ruled that two provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), “50 U.S.C. §§ 1804 and 1823, as amended by the Patriot Act, are unconstitutional because they violate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.” Continue Reading
Senate Hearing: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11, September 10, 2007. Witnesses Testimony Michael Chertoff [View PDF], Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security J. Michael McConnell [View PDF], Director of National Intelligence: “If we lose FISA, we will lose, in my… Continue Reading
DNI Senate Intel Committee Testimony on FISA Modernization
Follow up to April 16, 2007 posting, Fact Sheet: Proposed FISA Modernization Legislation, the following documents from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI): May 01, 2007, Transcript: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – FISA Modernization Unclassified, May 01, 2007, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – Statement for the Record on FISA Modernization: Statement for the… Continue Reading
Hearing: FISA for the 21st Century
Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing today: FISA for the 21st Century. Link to witness statements. AP: President Pushes To Revise Wiretap Law AP: Specter proposes challenge of Bush’s power on laws EFF: The White House/Specter Surveillance Bill S. 2453 – A bill to establish procedures for the review of electronic surveillance programs. ACLU press… Continue Reading
Essay Proposes FISA Is Not Adequate to Combat Technology Associated With Terrorism
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act Introduced Today, see Whispering Wires and Warrantless Wiretaps, by Kim Taipale, N.Y.U. REV. L. & SECURITY, No. VII Supl., “Bulletin: The NSA and the War on Terror,” (Spring 2006). “This essay examines certain implications of employing [automated data analysis… Continue Reading
Judiciary Cmte. Holds Hearing on NSA Wiretapping
Hearing – NSA III: War Time Executive Power and the FISA Court, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont: “We desperately need some answers to basic questions about the Presidents decision to wiretap Americans on American soil without court approval and without attempting to comply with the… Continue Reading
Feingold to Introduce Resolution to Censure President
Press release: “U.S. Senator Russ Feingold has announced that he will introduce a resolution (text – in PDF) in the U.S. Senate on Monday to censure the President of the United States. Feingold’s resolution condemns the President’s actions in authorizing the illegal wiretapping program and then misleading the country about the existence and legality of… Continue Reading
Release of Historic Gov. Docs Chronicle White House Position on Wiretapping
Follow-up to February 3, 2006 posting, Judiciary Cmte. Democrats Again Request Data on Domestic Surveillance From AG, which referred to an AP article, Papers: Ford White House Weighed Wiretaps…George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are cited in the documents, see this additional documentation from the National Security Archive: “Despite objections from then-Secretary of… Continue Reading
Applications to Special Court Hit Record High
From Secrecy News, “During calendar year 2004, 1,758 applications were made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for electronic surveillance and physical search, according to the latest Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) annual report to Congress. That established a new annual record for domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorism surveillance and search activity.” Continue Reading
