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Back in 2010, the government asked to use Section 702 against US persons. The FISA Court backed them down off that request. Then, six months later, the government admitted it had been collecting US person communications all along.
Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee had a hearing on Section 702 of FISA. It basically went something like this: It’s okay that we have a massive dragnet because the men running it are very honorable and diligent. The men running the dragnet refuse to answer a series of straight questions, and when they do, they’re […]
This is a really weedy post on changes to NSA’s minimization procedures. Read at your own risk.
The FISC annual report today appears to state that the FISC did not approve any 702 certificates in 2016, which would mean the government presumably worked on extensions from November 6 until the turn of the year.
ODNI released a “generally” good document, in that, it’s good except in its egregious use of the word “generally” to hide one of the most important details.
Ron Wyden raised a number of concerns about how Section 702 can affect Americans, some of which have gotten relatively little attention.
In January, the Intelligence Community publicly admitted for the first time that it doesn’t track Section 702 derived information at the granular level within intelligence reports. That may lead to failures to comply with notice requirements to defendants.
Last week, a bunch of House Judiciary Committee members set James Clapper a letter stating that before the Committee deals with Section 702 reauthorization next year, they’d like: The number of telephone communications in which one caller is located in the United States The number of Internet communications acquired through upstream collection that originate or […]
As I noted, in his opinion approving the Section 702 certifications from last year, Judge Thomas Hogan had a long section describing the 4 different kinds of violations the spooks had committed in the prior year. One of those pertained to FBI agents not establishing an attorney-client review team for people who had been indicted, as […]
Way at the end of yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee Global Threats hearing, Tom Cotton asked his second leading question permitting an intelligence agency head to ask for surveillance, this time asking Admiral Mike Rogers whether he still wanted Section 702 (the first invited Jim Comey to ask for access to Electronic Communications Transactions Records with National […]
