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Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part II). Statements of Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence and Kenneth Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, United States Department of Justice.

  • LLRX.com: The Protect America Act and Legislation Related to the Domestic Surveillance Program
  • AP: “No Americans’ telephones have been tapped without a court order since at least February, the top U.S. intelligence official told Congress Tuesday. But National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell could not say how many Americans’ phone conversations have been overheard because of U.S. wiretaps on foreign phone lines.”
  • ABC News: “Director of National Intelligence Says U.S. Didn’t Connect Available Information: “Six years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, the head of U.S. spy operations admitted to lawmakers that “9/11 should have and could have been prevented.” Director of National Intelligence, Michael McConnell, told members of the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that “it was an issue of connecting information that was available.” McConnell, explaining that the intelligence community was, at the time, very focused on foreign threats, said the community allowed itself “to be separated from anything that was potentially domestic,” and that domestic threats were “not something we [were] supposed to be concerned with.”
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