A Legal Analysis of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program

A Legal Analysis of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program, by Morton H. Halperin, January 6, 2006

  • Secrecy News: “Halperin, a leading civil libertarian and former Pentagon and State Department official, played an influential role in the enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, which subjected intelligence surveillance within the United States to a measure of judicial oversight. He also has the distinction of having his phone tapped at the direction of Henry Kissinger, who eventually apologized for the action.”

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  • Also via Secrecy News, Authorization For Use Of Military Force in Response to the 9/11 Attacks (P.L. 107-40): Legislative History, January 4, 2006.
  • Postings related to 9/11 and domestic surveillance
  • Barry Steinhardt, ACLU Technology and Liberty Project [Politech]: “The updated NSA Watch site…contains a wide variety of materials and links documenting the NSA’s extraordinary communication interception capabilities (“sigint”), which are part of an international arrangement sometimes referred to as “Echelon”.

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