Sentences with phrase «foreign intelligence information»

According to the court, «in approving minimization procedures the Court is to ensure that the intrusiveness of foreign intelligence surveillances and searches on the privacy of U.S. persons is «consistent» with the need of the United States to collect foreign intelligence information from foreign powers and their agents.»

Writing in an article in the FT only yesterday, Litt argued that the NSA's Prism data harvesting program «does not give the US «unrestricted access» to data», claiming: «Rather, the US may obtain communications only relating to specific identifiers, such as an email address or telephone number; only if the US believes those identifiers are being used to communicate foreign intelligence information; and only with the legally compelled assistance of communications service providers under the supervision of an independent court.»

In its ruling, the court cited the constitutional right to privacy of U.S. citizens, saying Ashcroft's policy «was not reasonably designed or «consistent with the need of the United States to obtain, produce, or disseminate foreign intelligence information»» as mandated by FISA.

The act also required that «the purpose of the surveillance is to obtain foreign intelligence information.»

Not exact matches

The NSA may then seek warrants from the secretive courts created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in order to compel these companies to hand over pertinent information on terrorism suspects and affiliates.

Your identity has by now been logged into some vast spy database in a foreign country (probably China), where an intelligence agency is building up a profile around your persona — sourced from personal information available on social media and through breached health insurers, airlines, government offices, and the like.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.

In particular, it alleges that the DOJ relied primarily on what it characterized as insufficient and unreliable information in the so - called Steele dossier to support their application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting Page.

The indictment provided a lengthy list of documents Martin is alleged to have stolen from multiple intelligence agencies starting in August 1996, including 2014 NSA reports detailing intelligence information «regarding foreign cyber issues» that contained targeting information and «foreign cyber intrusion techniques.»

More broadly, the Cuba problem has raised questions within the national security community about how the Trump administration is using intelligence information to guide its foreign policy.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte has sent requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Justice Department seeking information about the surveillance of former Trump foreign policy adviser CarteForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Justice Department seeking information about the surveillance of former Trump foreign policy adviser Carteforeign policy adviser Carter Page.

A FISA warrant application for Page would have included any and all information the FBI felt a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge should see in order to grant a warrant in the first place.

Though Trump has the power to declassify the information in the memo (and the underlying Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act documentation), it's unclear as to whether or not he's reviewed it.

The argument is that the warrant, submitted to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, relied on dubious information from the Trump - Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — and that the judge was not informed about the actual source of the information.

Carney then reassured reporters that they are only interested in gathering information on «foreign intelligence targets» (you know, the kinds that play Angry Birds) not ordinary Americans.

President Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador while meeting with them last week at the White House.

That data would also be open to an information sharing order, potentially to private companies or foreign intelligence agencies.

«What the United States said, and it appears in the open documents of this case, is that the disclosure of these documents by order of our courts would be «likely to result in serious damage to US national security and could harm existing intelligence information - sharing between our two governments»,» the foreign secretary said.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband today lost his attempt to block public disclosure of intelligence information relating to torture allegations in the case of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed.

Apart from that there is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[which] is a civilian foreign intelligence agency of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from arounIntelligence Agency (CIA)[which] is a civilian foreign intelligence agency of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from arounintelligence agency of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world.

(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or to an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual; [the law enforcement exemption]

The memo says the Justice Department relied partly on information compiled by Christopher Steele when it initially persuaded the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve surveillance of Page, according to three anonymous sources who spoke with the New York Times.

Meanwhile, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said she had no objection to disclosing legal orders and opinions about the program that targets people linked to al - Qaida, but the Bush administration would have to approve release of the information.»

Among other things, it establishes the Canadian Security Establishment, and the Minister of Defense's power to order it to sweep the «global information infrastructure» for «foreign intelligence».

It is responsible for foreign signals intelligence (SIGNIT) and the protection of government electronic information and communication networks.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreiIntelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreiintelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

The NPRM included a provision, in § 164.510 (f)-- Disclosure for Law Enforcement Purposes — that would allow covered entities to disclose protected health information without consent for the conduct of lawful intelligence activities under the National Security Act, and in connection with providing protective services to the President or to foreign heads of state pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056 and 22 U.S.C. 2709 (a)(3) respectively.

He also concluded that Canadian officials had shared unfounded, unverified and inaccurate information with foreign intelligence agencies, setting off the chain of events that ended with him being tortured in a Syrian jail cell.

Maher Arar's case and the cases of Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou - Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin, who were the subject of a subsequent judicial inquiry conducted by former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci, also uncovered problems with intelligence information flowing in the other direction: into Canada from foreign sources.

«To be clear, FISA's purpose is to collect foreign intelligence, but without additional meaningful constraints, Congress is allowing the government to use information collected without a warrant against Americans in domestic court proceedings,» four Senators wrote.