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7 Jun 2017, 7:17 am by kate
(PDT) -- During his testimony, DNI Coats talked about NSA’s recent decision to end “about searches,” the NSA’s searching of the content of communications through Upstream surveillance. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 1:31 am
This means, of course, that even if the NSA does not directly tap into every phone and computer in the U.S., the NSA could still intercept and maintain all international communications of U.S. persons, because each of those communications is, of course, with someone overseas -- and the NSA can freely intercept the latter's communications, based on no standard at all.The key question is what happens when the NSA surveillance of foreigners -- possibly… [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 6:30 am by Michael Knapp
This bill is less sweeping than the Utah bill, because it targets only support of warrantless collection, not “any federal data collection or surveillance agency. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 5:12 am by Timothy P. Flynn
 The Bush Administration based its warrantless wiretapping practice on FISA; the Obama Administration, to the surprise of many of its supporters, has not only continued the program, but expanded the scope of electronic surveillance to apparently everyone in America.The Edward Snowden case has shined a light on the 11-member FISA Court. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 3:41 pm by David Kravets
Photo: AP "Confirming or denying the mere existence of specific records in a general surveillance program would logically be both confirming or denying that the NSA was targeting a specific individual and confirming or denying that the NSA is conducting a general surveillance program," (.pdf) the New York-based appellate court wrote Wednesday. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 4:15 pm
NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted ... [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:51 am by Asha Rangappa
A key difference here from Title I surveillance is that the FISC is not approving surveillance on any particular individual, but rather, a set of procedures which authorizes the NSA to collect certain communications under the approved procedures, subject to periodic reporting to the FISC. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 7:30 am by Elizabeth Goitein
  In the 1970s, congressional investigators revealed that the FBI, NSA, and CIA had spent decades illegally surveilling and harassing the civil rights and anti-war movements. [read post]
” It's time for Congress to reassert its oversight role and begin a full-scale investigation into the NSA’s surveillance and analytic activities. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 10:21 am by Kate Tummarello
Bush’s warrantless wiretapping and surveillance programs,” and his support for backdoor access to encrypted technologies. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 6:27 am
" The Washington Times reports that "Bush signs surveillance expansion. [read post]
24 May 2022, 5:01 am by George Croner
The reversion to the narrower scope of § 1861 precipitated by Congress’s failure to extend its broader provisions in March 2020, combined with NSA’s suspension of the CDR program, has seen the use of this national surveillance authority decline by nearly 90 percent within the past five years. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 10:37 am by Dan Gauss
The system is explained by William Binney, a code breaker who resigned from the NSA in protest over the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping regime. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Ben Wizner
In the second, the U.S. surveillance state has outgrown legal restraints and allowed its surveillance activities to be driven by technological capabilities. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 8:57 am
After the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued new orders authorizing the NSA program in some still-unknown form, the Justice Department urged the Sixth Circuit to dismiss the challenge as moot. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 8:50 pm
"In addition to suing AT&T, we've now opened a second front in the battle to stop the NSA's illegal surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and hold personally responsible those who authorized or participated in the spying program," said senior staff attorney Kevin Bankston. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Liza Goitein
" Tim Edgar’s “Beyond Snowden” makes an important contribution to the burgeoning body of literature on post-9/11 NSA surveillance. [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 10:23 am by Corynne McSherry
In 2021 alone, the FBI conducted up to 3.4 million warrantless searches to find Americans’ communications. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 7:25 pm
It's not clear whether the allegations refer to the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program that the Administration admitted to running after the New York Times revealed its existence in December 2005. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 4:43 pm
See Also: Citing Four-Day Old Surveillance Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging NSA Spying Photo of NSA Spying Installation: Mellowbox Additional reporting by Ryan Singel [read post]