Press release – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts today made the following statement: “Several weeks ago I began discussing with the White House the need to expand this Committee’s oversight of the Terrorist Surveillance Program and to begin engaging with Congress on possible legislative approaches. Before our last recess, I asked the members of the Intelligence… Continue Reading
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Boston Globe reports on TSA program that targets travelers who “are not under investigation by any agency”
Boston Globe – Welcome to the Quiet Skies [paywall] – “Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that the TSA says little about because it “would make… Continue Reading
Surveillance of Foreigners Outside the United States Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Via FAS – Surveillance of Foreigners Outside the United States Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Edward C. Liu, Legislative Attorney. April 13, 2016. “After the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush authorized the National Security Agency to conduct a Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) to “intercept international communications… Continue Reading
Surveillance Costs: The NSA’s Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom & Cybersecurity
New America Foundation – “It has been over a year since The Guardian reported the first story on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs based on the leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, yet the national conversation remains largely mired in a simplistic debate over the tradeoffs between national security and individual privacy. It is time… Continue Reading
FISC Approves Government’s Request to Modify Telephony Metadata Program
“During his speech on Jan. 17, 2014, President Obama ordered a transition that will end the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it currently exists, and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk data. As a first step in that transition, the President directed the Attorney… Continue Reading
EPIC – New Limits on NSA Telephone Record Program Established, Authority Expires March 28
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted the government’s motion to limit access by the NSA to the bulk telephone records provided by US telephone companies. Under the new rules, the government cannot “query” the telephone metadata until after the court finds that there is a “reasonable, articulable suspicion that the selection term is associated with” a… Continue Reading
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Issues Report on NSA Massive Metadata Surveillance
Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. January 23, 2014. “The PCLOB is an independent bipartisan agency within the executive branch established by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.6 The Board is comprised of… Continue Reading
EPIC – Foreign Intelligence Court Releases Controversial Opinion on Domestic Telephone Records Program
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has released an Opinion, justifying the NSA’s telephone record collection program. In the Opinion, Judge Claire Eagan states that “there is no Fourth Amendment impediment to the collection” of all domestic call detail records. Judge Eagan also concluded that all domestic call detail records are “relevant” under Section 215 because “individuals associated… Continue Reading
Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder – U.S. Domestic Surveillance
“Two NSA surveillance programs have been exposed in press reports in June 2013. First, a Guardian report disclosed a classified FISC court order instructing Verizon, one of the largest U.S. telecommunications firms, to hand over phone records of millions of Americans to the NSA. Amid criticism from civil rights groups, the Obama administration defended the… Continue Reading
National Security Inspectors General Release Critique of Warrantless Surveillance Program
News release: Todays release of a report by several agency inspectors general reinforces the National Security Archives argument in our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that the Justice Department should declassify and release the legal justifications for the surveillance program authorized by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new report… Continue Reading
WSJ Reports on NSA's Expanding Domestic Surveillance Program and ACLU Files FOIA Request
Follow up to previous postings on TSA’s Total Information Awareness surveillance program, this news release today from the ACLU: “…According to the new Wall Street Journal report [subscription req’d], the NSA was engaging in broad domestic spying operations that involve collecting and analyzing the personal information of Americans in ways that are “essentially the same”… Continue Reading
Former Telecom Tech Alleges Domestic Data Surveillance
Follow up to previous postings on the domestic surveillance program and AT&T’s alleged participation, today’s article in the Washington Post, A Story of Surveillance – Former Technician ‘Turning In’ AT&T Over NSA Program, by Ellen Nakashima: “…Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician…alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call… Continue Reading
