Sentences with phrase «of foreign intelligence»

A statutory pillar of the NSA and FBI's mass surveillance powers, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is scheduled to expire at the end of the year.

Suggesting that the scope of foreign intelligence operations on U.S. - based social platforms goes well beyond what we know now isn't meant to be scaremongering.

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.»

(This can be a challenge since government data demands can take various forms, such as FBI subpoenas under the Patriot Act or NSA requests under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.)

It demonstrates that the «closed evidence procedure» being used in order to protect the integrity of foreign intelligence being passed on to us in good faith by our allies» allows for an extremely broad range of uses well beyond the scope of «National Security».

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.»

Marc Zwillinger is, in all likelihood, the only private lawyer in America to have argued a case in front of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, or FISC - R.

The Supreme Court will revisit affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas, address whether dog - sniffing is considered a search in Florida v. Harris (11 - 817), and whether Amnesty International has standing to challenge section 1881a of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FICA) in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA (09 - 4112).

«Climate emails hacked by spies — Interception bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency, says expert» (The Independent)

Vyacheslav Trubnikov (right) was head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Russia's equivalent of the CIA, from 1996 to 2000.

The CIA should basically devote itself to the collection and analysis of foreign intelligence.

The memo Duncan is referring to is a four - page memo written by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), which allegedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.

This memorandum provides Members an update on significant facts relating to the Committee's ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Due to the sensitive nature of foreign intelligence activity, FISA submissions (including renewals) before the FISC are classified.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

Not exact matches

If Trump were to disappear from Twitter, foreign intelligence services would surely start attaching greater import to the tweets of surrogates like Donald Trump Jr..

Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state actor» rather than a particular government group carried out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Church Committee exposed much of the program, with a full report from Congress stating: «The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.

The affair could have provided potential blackmail fodder to foreign intelligence agencies while raising the possibility of just the kind of security breach Petraeus may now be charged with.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts, the sources told Reuters.

The requests come in the form of so - called National Security Letters, or NSLs, and requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.

On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.

The Guardian has reported that the FBI applied for a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) warrant last summer to monitor members of the Trump campaign, but was denied in its initial attempt.

«I would hazard to guess there are more foreign intelligence officers inside the U.S. working against U.S. interests now than even at the height of the Cold War,» said Crumpton.

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.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign sIntelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign sintelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

The bipartisan Freedom Act would amend both the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prevent the NSA from bulk collection of Americans» communications records.

As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.

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.»

«While I am not aware of evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.

Long - time Trump ally Michael Cohen's appearances before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on consecutive days this week offered the panels greater insight into the inner workings of the president's business empire and how it considered expansion into foreign markets like Moscow.

Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high - end security clearance, and, traditionally, at least, that would have made someone ineligible for a high - level White House position.

Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Our findings, which are detailed below, 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2) represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.

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.

His emphasis on hard power and intelligence - gathering as the primary means of pursuing Canada's interests is now echoed by the current administration in Washington, which has gutted the State Department, allocated record amounts of funding to the military and appointed military - minded men in key foreign policy positions.

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.

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.

The technology companies, which the NSA says includes Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook, incurred the costs to meet new certification demands in the wake of the ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (Fisa) court.

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.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

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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.

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

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We've done some research on the invention and ownership in the artificial intelligence machine learning space, and more than half of Canadian - developed IP is now owned by foreign companies.

The Nunes memo alleges that the FBI knew of the partisan agenda behind the dossier but did not tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court.

Provisions of the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are cited to give legal cover to the hyper - collecting of metadata of millions of Americans with no connection to terrorism.