Author: Elizabeth B. BazanPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781604561517
Category : Current Events
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Overview & Modifications.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: Elizabeth B. BazanPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781604561517
Category : Current Events
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Overview & Modifications.
Electronic Surveillance Within the United States for Foreign Intelligence Purposes
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Intelligence and the Rights of AmericansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eavesdropping
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic surveillance
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Privacy
Author: Gina Marie StevensPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437926975
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
An overview of fed. law governing wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. It also appends citations to state law in the area and contains a biblio. of legal commentary as well as the text of the Electronic Commun. Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Foreign Intell. Surveillance Act. The gov¿t. has been given narrowly confined authority to engage in electronic surveillance, conduct physical searches, install and use pen registers and trap and trace devices for law enforcement purposes under the ECPA and for purposes of foreign intelligence gathering under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This report includes a brief summary of the expired Protect America Act, and of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008.
Modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on IntelligencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic surveillance
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: Markus KorjusPublisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781628082357
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The current legislative and oversight activity with respect to electronic surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has drawn national attention to several overarching issues. This book outlines three such issues and touches upon some of the perspectives reflected in the ongoing debate. These issues include the inherent and often dynamic tension between national security and civil liberties, particularly rights of privacy and free speech; the need for the intelligence community to be able to efficiently and effectively collect foreign intelligence information from the communications of foreign persons located outside the United States in a changing, fast-paced, and technologically sophisticated international environment or from United States persons abroad, and the differing approaches suggested to meet this need; and limitations of liability for those electronic communication service providers who furnish aid to the federal government in its foreign intelligence collection. Two constitutional provisions are implicated in this debate - the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
The Future of Foreign Intelligence
Author: Laura K. DonohuePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190235403
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Since the Revolutionary War, America's military and political leaders have recognized that U.S. national security depends upon the collection of intelligence. Absent information about foreign threats, the thinking went, the country and its citizens stood in great peril. To address this, the Courts and Congress have historically given the President broad leeway to obtain foreign intelligence. But in order to find information about an individual in the United States, the executive branch had to demonstrate that the person was an agent of a foreign power. Today, that barrier no longer exists. The intelligence community now collects massive amounts of data and then looks for potential threats to the United States. As renowned national security law scholar Laura K. Donohue explains in The Future of Foreign Intelligence, global communications systems and digital technologies have changed our lives in countless ways. But they have also contributed to a worrying transformation. Together with statutory alterations instituted in the wake of 9/11, and secret legal interpretations that have only recently become public, new and emerging technologies have radically expanded the amount and type of information that the government collects about U.S. citizens. Traditionally, for national security, the Courts have allowed weaker Fourth Amendment standards for search and seizure than those that mark criminal law. Information that is being collected for foreign intelligence purposes, though, is now being used for criminal prosecution. The expansion in the government’s acquisition of private information, and the convergence between national security and criminal law threaten individual liberty. Donohue traces the evolution of U.S. foreign intelligence law and pairs it with the progress of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. She argues that the bulk collection programs instituted by the National Security Agency amount to a general warrant, the prevention of which was the reason the Founders introduced the Fourth Amendment. The expansion of foreign intelligence surveillance—leant momentum by advances in technology, the Global War on Terror, and the emphasis on securing the homeland—now threatens to consume protections essential to privacy, which is a necessary component of a healthy democracy. Donohue offers a road map for reining in the national security state's expansive reach, arguing for a judicial re-evaluation of third party doctrine and statutory reform that will force the executive branch to take privacy seriously, even as Congress provides for the collection of intelligence central to U.S. national security. Alarming and penetrating, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of foreign intelligence and privacy in the United States.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: Elizabeth B. BazanPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590334959
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Recent amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act have given the government expanded powers for electronic investigation under the act. Many have voiced concerns that with such broad rules the personal freedoms enshrined in American tradition are in danger, despite the protestations of federal officials who say they will not abuse their authority. Given the current threats to U.S. security and revelations about intelligence failures leading to September 11, 2001, there is a case to be made that national security trumps individual liberty in certain cases. As questions arise over "battlefield detainees" and the fate of those held for undisclosed violations, the importance of law enforcement regulations takes center stage.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: Elizabeth B. BazanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic surveillance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The current legislative and oversight activity with respect to electronic surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has drawn national attention to several overarching issues. This report briefly outlines three such issues and touches upon some of the perspectives reflected in the ongoing debate. These issues include the inherent and often dynamic tension between national security and civil liberties, particularly rights of privacy and free speech; the need for the intelligence community to be able to efficiently and effectively collect foreign intelligence information from the communications of foreign persons located outside the United States in a changing, fast-paced, and technologically sophisticated international environment or from United States persons abroad, and the differing approaches suggested to meet this need; and limitations of liability for those electronic communication service providers who furnish aid to the federal government in its foreign intelligence collection. Two constitutional provisions, in particular, are implicated in this debate-the Fourth and First Amendments. This report briefly examines these issues and sets them in context. The 110th Congress has been very active in developing and considering measures to amend FISA to address these issues. On August 5, 2007, the Protect America Act, P.L. 110-55, was enacted into law. It expired on February 16, 2008, after passage of a 15-day extension to its original sunset date, P.L. 110-182. On November 15, 2007, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3773, the RESTORE Act of 2007. On February 12, 2008, the Senate passed S. 2248, as amended, then struck all but the enacting clause of H.R. 3773, and inserted the text of S. 2248, as amended, in its stead. On March 14, 2008, the House passed an amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3773. After months of intensive negotiations, on June 19, 2008, a compromise bill, H.R. 6304, was introduced in the House. It was passed by the House the following day. On June 26, 2008, a cloture motion on the measure was presented in the Senate. Further activity on H.R. 6304 is anticipated after the Senate returns from the July 4th recess. Each of these bills differs somewhat in content and approach from one another. This report also briefly explores legislative responses to the issues addressed. It will be updated as needed.