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12 Apr 2021, 1:53 pm
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber roles in his administration, the White House said Monday in moving to fill out a team whose role has grown more urgent after two major hacks that have consumed the government’s attention. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 3:48 pm
National Security Agency should have an unlimited ability to collect digital information in the name of protecting the country against terrorism and other threats, an influential federal judge said during a debate on privacy. [read post]
17 Jan 2006, 12:11 am
[JURIST] In the months following Sept. 11, the National Security Agency [official website] provided a "flood" of surveillance [JURIST news archive] information to the FBI, most of which proved to be worthless and a waste of FBI resources, and which prompted FBI doubts about the legality of the NSA's increasing role in domestic intelligence, the New York Times reported Tuesday. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 1:58 pm
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday denied early review [order list, PDF] of a constitutional challenge to the National Security Agency's (NSA) [official website] PRISM [JURIST backgrounder] telephony bulk data collection program. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 1:59 pm
On March 1, 2010, changes to section 1921 of the Social Security Act will go into effect. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 8:22 am
Judge Vaughn Walker found in March that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless wiretapping program violated the rights of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation [JURIST news archive] under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance... [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 8:00 am
The US Senate [official website] voted 65-34 [roll call] on Thursday in favor of a six-year extension [materials] of the FISA Amendments Act [text, PDF], which authorizes the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] to gather intelligence by means of warrantless surveillance of foreign persons and American companies. [read post]
23 Dec 2005, 9:22 am
[JURIST] Former US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle [official profile; advocacy website] denied in an editorial in the Washington Post Friday that the post-9/11 congressional Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) provided any basis for warrantless National Security Agency wiretapping within the United States [JURIST report]. [read post]
25 Oct 2018, 5:32 am
Rabinowitz The Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) is an inter-agency committee designed to review foreign investments that raise national security concerns. [read post]
26 Dec 2006, 3:32 am
"Courts Side With NSA On Wiretaps": Today in The New York Sun, Joseph Goldstein has an article that begins, "Defense lawyers who had hoped that the public disclosure a year ago of the National Security Agency's wiretapping program would yield information favorable to their clients are being rebuffed by the federal judiciary, which in a series of unusually consistent rulings has rejected efforts by terrorism suspects to access the records. [read post]
24 Jan 2006, 12:57 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] on Tuesday downplayed criticism [speech transcript] of the controversial domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] administered by the National Security Agency [official website], saying that reports of the program have been misleading. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 11:23 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] Wednesday ruled [decision, PDF] that the National Security Agency (NSA) [JURIST news archive] does not have to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether it has used electronic surveillance methods to monitor their communications. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 5:27 am
"Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Warrantless Wiretaps Sought": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "A lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program should be thrown out because the government is now conducting the wiretaps under the authority of a secret intelligence court, according to court papers filed by the Justice Department yesterday. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 12:51 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion] Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] program of collecting phone call data is likely unconstitutional. [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 10:23 am
The judgment, delivered by Lord Justice Richards and Justice Cranson, examined the allegations of abuse of seven detainees at the hands of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence agency. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 7:59 am
Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee [hearing materials] Thursday that there was dissent within the administration concerning the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [ [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 8:57 am
“Speaking on behalf of the U.S. government, we’re looking into these reports and seeking to gather the facts,” said Caitlin Hayden, deputy spokesperson for the National Security Agency. [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 12:45 pm
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15 Sep 2016, 9:01 am
Human rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy websites], are calling [HRW press release] on US President Barack Obama to pardon former National Security Agency (NSA) [official websites] contractor Edward Snowden [BBC profile] with a campaign launched [AI press release] on Wednesday. [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 4:57 am
WASHINGTON — Classified information stolen by a former National Security Agency contractor included the names of covert intelligence officers, according to a federal court filing on Thursday. [read post]
