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Washington Examiner
March 13, 2018
Last week's letter from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to Attorney General Jeff Sessions states that the FBI may have broken federal law by using unverified information to support its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications against Carter Page.
CBS News
March 6, 2018
The memo alleged that the FBI relied on information from a dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by Democratic groups when they sought a warrant to monitor Carter Page, one of Trump's foreign policy advisors, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Washington Examiner
March 3, 2018
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, established in 1978 through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to oversee the process by which the federal government requests secret surveillance warrants, has become a rallying call for the Trump administration and some Republican lawmakers, whoÃÂ ...
Politico
March 1, 2018
White House: Trump wants overhaul of FISA for getting surveillance warrants ... chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, alleged that the FBI sought a warrant against Page related to its Russia investigation based on the dossier without disclosing that it had been financed in part by the DemocraticÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
February 28, 2018
Trump's latest tirade stems from a comment Sessions made Tuesday, when he suggested the Justice Department's inspector general will evaluate whether prosecutors and FBI agents wrongly obtained a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the communications of a onetimeÃÂ ...
Vox
February 24, 2018
The Nunes memo's core allegation is that the FBI and Department of Justice misled at least one federal judge on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court during the Trump-Russia investigation. In October 2016, the FBI requested a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter PageÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
February 18, 2018
Jeff Sessions: Justice Department investigating process used by FBI to apply for FISA warrants ... "Let me tell you, every FISA warrant based on facts submitted to that court has to be accurate," Sessions told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" regarding the FISA Court, which adjudicates applications toÃÂ ...
CBS News
February 12, 2018
In the wake of the House Intelligence Committee's release of a GOP-crafted memo alleging surveillance abuses by the Department of Justice, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, is defending the FBI for its conduct in seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump campaignÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
February 10, 2018
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes wants the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to turn over transcripts from hearings related to the FBI and Justice Department's application for and renewals of a warrant to conduct surveillance on a Trump campaign adviser. Nunes, R-Calif., sent aÃÂ ...
UPROXX
February 2, 2018
The law was made so broad that in 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that a FISA warrant had allowed the NSA to collect call data on Americans for years. FISA warrants operate on reasonable suspicion, not concrete proof: The FBI doesn't have to prove somebody is a spy or a criminal to get a FISA warrant.
Newsweek
February 2, 2018
Republican 'Release the Memo' Conspiracy Ignores How Difficult It Is to Get a FISA Warrant ... The Republican memo that reportedly accuses the Justice Department of deceit in its effort to wiretap a Trump campaign aide apparently ignores one key detail: It is very hard to get such surveillance warrants.
U.S. News & World Report
January 30, 2018
The memo reportedly alleges misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in obtaining warrants to surveil former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Specifically, the story goes, the warrant failed to sufficiently disclose that some information upon which the FISA application relied, specificallyÃÂ ...
CNN
January 30, 2018
Adam Schiff of California available as well. The Nunes memo says the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act over its use of the opposition research dossier on Donald Trump and Russia as part of the case to obtain a FISA warrant for former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter PageÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 29, 2018
The memo alleges that the FBI and Justice Department did not adequately explain to a judge that they were relying partly on research by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele when they sought to renew a warrant for surveillance of Page from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Court (FISA).
Politico
January 22, 2018
The dossier that the memo alleges helped drive the decision to seek a FISA warrant on Page was compiled in 2016 by former British spy Christopher Steele, a trusted FBI partner in previous investigations, who had been commissioned by the private research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump's businessÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 20, 2018
Some Republicans have claimed that the FBI inappropriately obtained a politically motivated FISA warrant to spy on Trump during the transition and on Friday, Capitol Hill was consumed with speculation about a four-page memo produced by House Intelligence Committee Republicans that some GOPÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 20, 2018
Several people familiar with the memo said it contained several pages of bullet points focusing on material drawn from the application materials for a FISA warrant targeting Carter Page, a onetime campaign adviser to Mr. Trump. Mr. Page, who had visited Moscow in July 2016 and left the campaign thatÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 18, 2018
The source indicated the transcripts would post on the House Intelligence Committee website later Thursday. The president's allies argued that Simpson's Judiciary testimony did nothing to undercut their core claim that the FBI had used the dossier to investigate Trump and possibly to secure a FISA warrantÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2018
Feinstein's retreat back to a hawkish posture on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) gave supporters of the status quo the vote ... The approach that passed the House last month and is now poised for final Senate approval this week includes a narrow new warrant requirement thatÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 18, 2018
The bill would renew a key surveillance authority for the National Security Agency until 2023 and consolidate the FBI's power to search Americans' digital communications without a warrant. The motion, which passed 60-38, virtually guarantees that the final bill will pass likely later this week and quashesÃÂ ...
Motherboard
January 17, 2018
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was enacted in 1978, but in 2008 it was amended with Section 702, which allows US intelligence agencies to spy on any foreigner outside the US without a warrant. On a number of occasions, however, US intelligence agencies exploited FISA loopholes in order toÃÂ ...
Conservative Review
January 17, 2018
Now, the highest levels of the FBI are very excited to have this. They're even thinking about putting this ex-British spy on their payroll. What do they do with it? I know they used it to get that FISA warrant. You know how I know though, Sean?” “Why won't the FBI director or why won't anyone at Department ofÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
January 15, 2018
Investigative reporter Sara Carter on the Obama-era FBI using FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. From Wednesday's ... They all confirmed at different levels that 100 percent the dossier was used at least in part, one person said was significantly a part of getting the FISA warrant. What are youÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 9, 2018
With major NSA surveillance authorities set to expire later this month, House Republicans are rushing to pass a bill that would not only reauthorize existing powers, but also codify into law some practices that critics have called unconstitutional. The bill takes aim at reforming how federal law enforcementÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
December 31, 1999
When asked if then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe told the Intel Committee behind closed doors that if not for the Steele dossier no FISA warrant would have been issued, he said that was taken "out of context" and that those were "not his exact words." He called the dossier "largely accurate."
gvwire.com
December 31, 1999
In other words, FISA court proceedings do not involve prosecutors and defense attorneys arguing on behalf of clients. The FISA court is simply hearing the requests of officials seeking search warrants. This is very similar to what happens when local law enforcement officials seek a search warrant. HoweverÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
In other words, FISA court proceedings do not involve prosecutors and defense attorneys arguing on behalf of clients. The FISA court is simply hearing the requests of officials seeking search warrants. This is very similar to what happens when local law enforcement officials seek a search warrant. HoweverÃÂ ...
WIRED
December 31, 1999
Under Title 1 of the law, nicknamed “traditional FISA,” law enforcement must go before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to receive a warrant to surveil an individual or group of people. To get that warrant, law enforcement must show probable cause that a person is an agent of a foreignÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Instead, the President's frustrations Thursday morning appeared to be aimed only at surveillance that was conducted on foreign intelligence sources -- likely using a FISA warrant -- that also swept up members of the Trump transition team. The identities of some of those Trump officials were unmasked byÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
December 31, 1999
Thursday on his syndicated radio program, Mark Levin reviews the facts about reports that the Steele Dossier was used by the Obama administration to gain approval for a FISA court warrant to surveil Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Circa News reporter Sara Carter reported this week that theÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Geltzer emphasizes that 702 is a generalized directive from the FISA court that allows for collection from a certain foreign intelligence asset for a certain period of time, which makes it broader than a warrant. "The people targeted by 702 collection don't have constitutional protections that require a warrantÃÂ ...
Motherboard
December 14, 2017
And at least from the questions, it seemed the judges hearing Gartenlaub's appeal agreed that the government shouldn't be searching for child porn with a FISA warrant, at least not in the Ninth Circuit where a 2010 precedent limits the government's ability to search everything on an electronic device: “TheÃÂ ...
The Hayride
December 13, 2017
Gohmert remarked that if the Obama administration compiled a Russian dossier as part of “opposition research” on then-candidate Donald Trump in order to obtain a FISA warrant, then he argued that the FBI's level of corruption was more pervasive than it was when J. Edgar Hoover was its director.
Truth-Out
December 9, 2017
It would require agents to obtain a warrant before reading the contents of Americans' communications sucked up into FISA databases. "We've protected the FBI's ability to access the database for the purpose of query," the committee's Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said. "But then if you're going to take itÃÂ ...
RT
December 7, 2017
Jordan then made his case that the FISA warrant was obtained based on false information contained in the Steele dossier, calling it “fake news National Enquirer garbage.” “I think Peter Strzok, head of counterintelligence at the FBI... Peter Strzok, the guy who ran the FBI's Clinton investigation, did all theÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
December 7, 2017
Rep. Jim Jordan Grills FBI Director Wray About Peter Strzok: Did He Use Steele Dossier To Obtain FISA Warrant? ... Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who was fired by the Mueller investigation for sending "anti-Trump text messages," was involved with getting a warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign.
NBCNews.com
December 7, 2017
Wray's statement appears to be the first on-the-record confirmation that the FBI has applied for FISA warrants in its investigation into Russian election ... The Washington Post and the New York Times reported in April that the FBI used a FISA warrant to monitor former Trump foreign policy adviser CarterÃÂ ...
Just Security
December 5, 2017
As the New Year's deadline for reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) approaches, current and former ... Those who want the government to read the content of Americans' private communications without a warrant act as if the government has no other options.
Daily Signal
December 2, 2017
You can read the first article, “How the Section 702 Program Helps America Thwart Terrorist Plots,” here, the second article, “Anti-Terror Law's Safeguards Against Incidental Collection of Domestic Data Are Sufficient,” here and the third article, “Ample Safeguards of Civil Liberties Warrant FISA Section 702's ...
Sentinel & Enterprise
December 1, 2017
According to The Hill, Burr has explicitly rejected any requirement that investigators obtain a warrant before accessing the communications of Americans ... And with so many more high-profile issues swirling around Washington, both superficial and substantive, FISA places low on the scale for many voters.
EFF
December 1, 2017
Both bills are attempts to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, a powerful surveillance authority that allows the NSA to target and collect ... of Americans' communications, the Nunes bill gives the government the option whether or not to seek a warrant before reading these communications.
The Intercept
December 1, 2017
While traditional FISA authority permits spying on a particular person or group through warrants issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, under the new powers, ... They also reveal an instance in which the NSA incorrectly identified a U.S. citizen as a foreign target of a FISA warrant.
Daily Signal
November 30, 2017
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is up for reauthorization before the end of 2017. Originally passed in 1978, FISA was amended in 2008 by the FISA Amendments Act, which added a new Title VII, “Additional Procedures Regarding Certain Persons Outside the United States.”.
Slate Magazine
November 28, 2017
Under current practice, the FBI is authorized to review its FISA data without a warrant, as long as the bureau follows specific court-ordered safeguards (called “minimization procedures”) and internal policies designed to protect privacy. Critics, however, consider such queries “backdoor searches” that ...
Being Libertarian
November 22, 2017
However, this act still requires a warrant for surveillance of people ... FISA was amended in 2008, and with this amendment came section 702.
Vox
November 22, 2017
The warrants required the company to disclose massive amounts of ... letters, FISA warrants, and other national security demands they receive, but only in ... months of the defendant's location history without a warrant: Police ...
EFF
November 22, 2017
... to the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act place certain warrant ... The bill requires the FISC to approve warrants based on whether there ...
FCW.com
November 13, 2017
In its current form, Section 702 of FISA permits the warrantless collection ... Critics have complained that while the bill does introduce a warrant ...
Washington Examiner
November 12, 2017
The House panel last week voted to require intelligence officials to request a warrant from the FISA court before looking through emails and ...
The Verge
October 30, 2017
Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act gives the director of national ... requiring a judicial warrant for any query involving US citizens.