Shortly after my post earlier today
about national security letters, the Electronic Frontier Foundation issued an alert, «Last Chance to Support PATRIOT Reform — Call Congress Now!»
Not exact matches
The Treasury Department wrote a
letter Monday to lawyers involved in the deal expressing concern
about Chinese competitors in 5G network development, which raises
national security concerns over the Broadcom - Qualcomm merger.
The
National Security Coordinator associated himself with the Chief of Staff but added that the
letter had been written already and nothing could be done
about the situation.
Not long after the original executive order went into effect, Rep. Chris Collins, a staunch Trump supporter and frequent surrogate for the administration on
national TV, wrote a
letter to the Secretary of Homeland
Security expressing concern
about what measures like fingerprinting and retina scans at the border could mean for Western New York.
«Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) asked
about the situation in a Tuesday
letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, citing documents that appear to show that the
National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) paid more than $ 24 million to the partnership of Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory for costs from a series of whistleblower cases.»
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What was particularly striking
about the EPA
letter is that it asked the State Department to provide a broader
national security analysis of the implications of committing the nation long - term to oil from Canada, asking for an evaluation of energy
security hand - in - hand with environmental
security.
«While much has been said and written
about the science of climate change and the economic implications of the proposed Kyoto Protocol, little attention has been given to the effect of this sweeping and hastily drafted treaty on the sovereignty and
national security of the United States,» read the the
letter from R. Bruce Josten, the Chamber's Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, to Representative Lois Caps.
urging anyone concerned
about the PATRIOT Act and
national security letters in particular to contact their senators and represenatives today.
Fellow, ICIT & Drew Spaniel, Researcher, ICIT On September 26, 2016, the
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) released an Open
Letter to Congress that urged for the informed communication of facts
about the
security of election systems with the American public.
(A
national security letter is a secret order that may contain a «nondisclosure» requirement, preventing the person who received the
national security letter from ever talking
about it for the rest of their life under threat of criminal prosecution.)