Sentences with phrase «secret foreign intelligence»

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court exists to provide judicial authorization for intelligence search and surveillance activities within the United States.

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.

The Guardian is publishing in full two documents submitted to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (known as the Fisa court), signed by Attorney General Eric Holder and stamped 29 July 2009.

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FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals... [T] he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus» resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

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.

The Foreign Office has confirmed that a long - standing MI6 officer has been put in charge of vetting all intelligence reports that come out of the Secret Intelligeintelligence reports that come out of the Secret IntelligenceIntelligence Service.

He also declined to take a position on various proposals to reshape secret courts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The memo alleges the FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in obtaining a secret warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who U.S. authorities suspected was a Russian agent.

As Foreign Secretary I am responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, under the overall authority of the Prime Minister.

House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes, a California Republican, met on the White House grounds with a source who showed him secret American intelligence reports a day before he revealed that Trump or his closest associates may have been «incidentally» swept up in foreign surveillance by American sIntelligence Committee Devin Nunes, a California Republican, met on the White House grounds with a source who showed him secret American intelligence reports a day before he revealed that Trump or his closest associates may have been «incidentally» swept up in foreign surveillance by American sintelligence reports a day before he revealed that Trump or his closest associates may have been «incidentally» swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.

The secret court order was granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington DC, which oversees surveillance requests.

Finney, who has been in remission from cancer of the prostate for several years, will play a Foreign Office mandarin with powers over the Secret Intelligence Service, described to me as a reasonably big role and full of class.

About SIS According to SIS's informative website, a formal and permanent British intelligence service was first established in 1909; but the history of British intelligence organizations engaged in foreign intelligence goes back at least to the 15th century (Thomas Cromwell ran secret agents in Europe on behalf of Henry VIII and Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's «spymaster», maintained a network of 50 secret agents abroad and a substantial network in Britain.

With 2,371 secret surveillance orders approved in 2007, federal surveillance activity under the jurisdiction of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has risen for the 9th year in a row — more than doubling since 2000.

In the wake of the Snowden disclosures, both Congress and the public have taken a harder look at the work of the courts created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), focusing in particular on the «secret body of law» 1 they have created in the process of authorizing, modifying, and denying government surveillance requests.