Sentences with phrase «with foreign intelligence»

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.
In fall 2016, FBI investigators applied for a warrant with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump adviser.
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.

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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.
Google will, however, work with the government when Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests are delivered to the company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This same president may well have been helped into office by a hostile foreign intelligence service colluding with his campaign.
The first involved establishing personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow — such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and early Trump foreign - policy adviser Carter Page — and using them as a means to further Russia's foreign - policy goals.
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.
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.
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.
Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) will provide you with on - the - ground intelligence and practical advice on foreign markets to help you make better, more timely and cost - effective decisions in order to achieve your international business goals.
When San Diego cab driver BasaalySaeedMoalin was charged with providing material support to terrorists based on surveillance evidence in Dec. 2010, his attorney, Joshua Dratel, tried to get the government's wiretap application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
A judge from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court has to give the FBI permission if it wants to spy on a US citizen it thinks might be working with a foreign goveForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court has to give the FBI permission if it wants to spy on a US citizen it thinks might be working with a foreign goveforeign government.
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.
Two sources familiar with the memo said it accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of abusing their authority in asking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge to approve a request to extend an eavesdropping operation on Carter Page, an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.
Interestingly, by serving US strategic interests in the region during and after the Cold War, Pakistan seems to have somehow emulated the American model with a plus — as its army and intelligence not just dominate foreign policy but also lead domestic politics.
President Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador while meeting with them last week at the White House.
The Snowden revelations are not even remotely linked to the idea that a sitting U.S. President was provided with directed intelligence intercepts from a foreign power on a current U.S. citizen circumventing the NSA, the CIA and myriad of 5 EYES joint intelligence collection and analysis efforts.
The foreign secretary said the UK has enjoyed an «exceptional intelligence sharing relationship» with the US since the second world war.
Aldrich and Cormac are particularly revealing about the government management of intelligence and security, with SIS and GCHQ coming under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Secretary (but for how much longer?)
These complex covert operations are commonly referred to in intelligence circles as «black ops», «extreme measures» and «wet work» and they are always done in the utmost secrecy and with the full knowledge and sometimes assitance and logistical support of either one or two other friendly and trusted foreign intelligence agencies.
And apart from anything else, if you're running a newspaper with foreign correspondents in strange parts of the world, as I was then, it's potentially a physical threat to them if it's believed that they're working for British intelligence.
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.
In his opening statement the veteran state lawmaker called for tax and regulatory reform to help the small - business sector and enhanced military, intelligence and diplomatic capabilities to deal with foreign enemies.
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.
President Buhari had with him the Governors of Ogun and Plateau; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Industry, Trade and Investment; the Chairpersons of Senate and House of Representatives committees on international relations; the Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA; the Chief of Defence Staff and Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States.
NSA spokeswoman Vanee» Vines told CNN: «Gen. Alexander did not discuss with President Obama in 2010 an alleged foreign intelligence operation involving German Chancellor Merkel, nor has he ever discussed alleged operations involving Chancellor Merkel.
The FBI is also seeking candidates with expertise in foreign languages (especially Arabic, Farsi, Pashtu, Urdu, Chinese — all dialects — Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese)-- not to mention foreign counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and military intelligence (which, the FBI insists, is not an oxymoron).
Instead, Saul turns to Viktor (Ronald Guttman), an old contact from Russia's foreign intelligence service — the S.V.R. — who somewhat begrudgingly reveals photos of Tovah meeting with Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham).
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.
Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)
(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.
CIC worked with Public Safety Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and consulted with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Industry Canada to develop the list of countries and territory whose nationals would be subject to biometric screening.
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.
From the Intercept: With these stolen encryption keys, intelligence agencies can monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments.
With these stolen encryption keys, intelligence agencies can monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments.
This exercise emerged from the concern that there was no single, publicly disclosable document that set out how UK military personnel and intelligence officers were to proceed when engaging with foreign States on the question of the detention and interrogation of individuals held in foreign custody.
This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek speak with Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Federal Judge James Jones, and Chairman and Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School Mohammed Hafez...
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 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enacted in 1978,10 sets up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a specialized Article III court with the power to hear and grant government requests for foreign surveillance.11 The FISC's work consists almost entirely of ex parte proceedings granting, modifying, and denying government requests for the authority to conduct surveillance or searches, or to compel the production of tangible thForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enacted in 1978,10 sets up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a specialized Article III court with the power to hear and grant government requests for foreign surveillance.11 The FISC's work consists almost entirely of ex parte proceedings granting, modifying, and denying government requests for the authority to conduct surveillance or searches, or to compel the production of tangible thForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a specialized Article III court with the power to hear and grant government requests for foreign surveillance.11 The FISC's work consists almost entirely of ex parte proceedings granting, modifying, and denying government requests for the authority to conduct surveillance or searches, or to compel the production of tangible thforeign surveillance.11 The FISC's work consists almost entirely of ex parte proceedings granting, modifying, and denying government requests for the authority to conduct surveillance or searches, or to compel the production of tangible things.12
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.
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.
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.
«With no apparent evidence that these recently revealed unauthorized cell - site simulators are operating with an FCC license, it would seem the FCC need only to enforce the law to stop this foreign intelligence gathering.&raWith no apparent evidence that these recently revealed unauthorized cell - site simulators are operating with an FCC license, it would seem the FCC need only to enforce the law to stop this foreign intelligence gathering.&rawith an FCC license, it would seem the FCC need only to enforce the law to stop this foreign intelligence gathering.»
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group in Congress proposed legislation to rein in a controversial loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that provisions U.S. spy agencies with a legal l
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