CIA Director Nominee Contends Domestic Surveillance Legal

Senate Intelligence Committee Open Hearing: Confirmation Hearing of General Michael V. Hayden to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, May 18, 2006.

  • Opening Statement by Michael V. Hayden, Unclassified (5 pages, PDF)
  • Via FAS, full transcript of the Hayden confirmation hearing (171 pages, PDF), and the same transcript via DNI
  • AP: Hayden Insists NSA Surveillance Is Legal
  • New York Times: C.I.A. Choice Says He’s Independent of the Pentagon
  • AP, May 17, 2006: “National Intelligence Director John Negroponte declassified a list of 30 congressional briefings the Bush administration says have been held since the National Security Agency began its no-warrant surveillance program after the Sept. 11 attacks.”
  • The Hill, May 16, 2006, Specter strikes NSA deal, by Alexander Bolton: “Specter has mollified conservative opposition to his bill by agreeing to drop the requirement that the Bush administration seek a legal judgment on the program from a special court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978…An expert in constitutional law and national security, however, said that the change would allow the administration to throw up huge obstacles to anyone seeking to challenge the program’s legality.”
  • Listening In: Eavesdripping and the National Security Agency – Patrick Radden Keefe, James Risen, Adm. Bob Inman and Jeffrey Rosen, moderator, Monday, May 8, 2006, New York Public Library (Transcript, 34 pages, PDF).
  • CRS Report, Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities, May 17, 2006 (19 pages, PDF)
  • Related postings on domestic surveillance program
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