Sentences with phrase «foreign intelligence targets»

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.

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Burnett: America's biggest exporter is a key target for foreign intelligence hacking given its defense contracts and operations around the world.

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.»

They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target «non-US persons» under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.

Obama's other measures include plans to work with Congress to pursue reforms of Section 215 of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act that governs the collection of so - called «metadata» such as phone records, and reform of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which considers requests from law enforcement authorities on intelligence - gatherIntelligence Surveillance Court, which considers requests from law enforcement authorities on intelligence - gatherintelligence - gathering targets.

The release on websites this week of what appears to be top - secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets has caused deep concern inside American intelligence agencies, raising the question of whether America's own elite operatives have been hacked and their methods revealed.

But he indicated that he may have done so, though only a modest scale, when he said that the law allowed «targeted» monitoring of terrorists, criminal networks and hostile foreign intelligence agencies.

A fall 2016 application for a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant targeting a former Trump campaign adviser has become the latest front in the partisan struggle over the investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election.

According to the minutes of a January 2009 meeting, GCHQ's «network gaming exploitation team» had identified engineers, embassy drivers, scientists and other foreign intelligence operatives to be World of Warcraft players — potential targets for recruitment as agents.

Our systems are an attractive target for foreign military and intelligence services, criminals and terrorist networks.

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.»

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.

Beyond extending the sunset date, Burr's draft would allow intelligence agencies to resume spying on communications that make mention of a specific foreign target, widening the scope of surveillance well beyond current interpretations of the law that allow only for intercepting communications sent to or from a named target.