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Reports
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Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book. October 2007.
- This 680 page book is a compilation of the significant legal references as pertaining to the authority and guidance for the Intelligence Community. It contains copies of the legislation, Executive Orders, MOUs and more.
Source: Director of National Intelligence, United States (All by Source | Source Website). Large File: 2.8+ Mb.
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Information Sharing and Analysis :
Intelligence and Intelligence Sharing :
Legal Material
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Transcript of Conference Call with Senior Administration Officials Regarding FISA Modernization Legislation. August 2007.
- This is the transcript of a conference call dicussing FISA and the FISA modernization bill. Questions and answers follow the discussion from Senior Administration Officials.
Source: Department of Justice, United States (All by Source | Source Website).
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Intelligence and Intelligence Sharing :
Secondary Legal Material
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Digital Surveillance: The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. June 2007.
- "The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA, P.L. 103-414, 47 U.S.C. 1001-1010), enacted October 25, 1994, is intended to preserve the ability of law enforcement officials to conduct electronic surveillance effectively and efficiently despite the deployment of new digital technologies and wireless services that have altered the character of electronic surveillance. CALEA requires
telecommunications carriers to modify their equipment, facilities, and services, wherever reasonably achievable, to ensure that they are able to comply with authorized electronic surveillance actions."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL30677.
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Communications including Interoperability
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Intelligence Issues for Congress. June 2007.
- "To address the challenges facing the U.S. Intelligence Community in the 21st century, congressional and executive branch initiatives have sought to improve coordination among the different agencies and to encourage better analysis. In December 2004, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (P.L. 108-458) was signed, providing for a Director of National Intelligence (DNI) with substantial authorities to manage the national intelligence effort. The legislation also established a separate Director of the Central Intelligence Agency."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL33539.
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Communications including Interoperability :
Government
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America's Unfinished Welcome Mat: US-VISIT a Decade Later. May 2007.
- " US-VISIT is an important part of the Department's layered border security approach and fight against terrorist travel. In ten years, our nation's entry-exit system has gone from a mostly paper-based system to an automated program that now uses biometrics and draws on a number of databases. Since January 2004, US-VISIT has processed more than 76 million visitors and intercepted approximately 1,800 immigration violators and people with criminal records. ICE apprehended 139 aliens based on overstay records identified by US-VISIT in FY 2006 and the numbers are anticipated to rise as biometrics become more prevalent."
Source: Department of Homeland Security, United States (All by Source | Source Website).
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Aviation Security :
Border Security :
Homeland Security :
National Strategies
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National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Legal Background and Recent Amendments. May 2007.
- "Five federal statutes authorize intelligence officials to request certain business record information in connection with national security investigations. The authority to issue these national security letters (NSLs) is comparable to the authority to issue administrative subpoenas. The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the authority under four of the NSL statutes and created the fifth. Thereafter, the authority has been reported to have been widely used."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source).
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CIP Report. April 2007.
- This month's issue of The CIP Report highlights “three examples of ongoing academic research directly impacting not only the field of critical infrastructure protection, but national security writ large.” In addition, this issue highlights “the recently passed 9/11 legislation, ‘Improving America's Security Act,' with details of CIP related language, as well as the recent DHS leadership appointments and resignations. Finally, this issue includes a Legal Insights column focusing on the threats to the Commercial Facilities sector, specifically shopping malls, and an invitation to a symposium on Internet Governance and Internet Security, to be held on May 17, 2007 at the Swiss Embassy.”
Source: Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University School of Law (All by Source | Source Website).
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Critical Infrastructure Protection :
Cyberterrorism :
National Security
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Congressional Oversight of Intelligence: Current Structure and Alternatives. February 2007.
- "This report reviews the basic characteristics of proposed joint committees on intelligence, differences among them, and perceived advantages and disadvantages.[6] It also covers the congressional panels a JCI would replace: namely, the House and Senate select committees on intelligence. Along with this is a brief review of the defunct Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE) — often cited as an organizational model for a joint intelligence panel, as it has been for the 9/11 Commission. Although it did not adopt either of the 9/11 Commission proposals, Congress has pursued other initiatives for changing its intelligence oversight structure and capabilities."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL32525.
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Intelligence and Intelligence Sharing
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review Decisions. February 2007.
- "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 50 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq., as passed in 1978, provided a statutory framework for the use of electronic surveillance in the context of foreign intelligence gathering. In so doing, Congress sought to strike a delicate balance between national security interests and personal privacy rights. Subsequent legislation expanded federal laws dealing with foreign intelligence gathering to address physical searches, pen registers and trap and trace devices, and access to certain business records."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL30465.
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National Security
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Homeland Security Grants: Observations on Process DHS Used to Allocate Funds to Selected Urban Areas. February 2007.
- "In response to a legislative mandate, congressional request, and based on discussions with relevant congressional staff, we addressed the following: What process did DHS use to allocate UASI grants in
fiscal year 2006? How did DHS determine the urban areas that were eligible to apply for UASI grants in fiscal year 2006? How did DHS determine award amounts in fiscal year 2006? What changes, if any, does DHS plan to implement in fiscal year 2007 to its UASI award determination process?"
Source: Government Accountability Office (All by Source | Source Website). Report Number: GAO-07-381R.
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Federal Funding Information :
Homeland Security
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Secure Border Initiative: SBInet Expenditure Plan Needs to Better Support Oversight and Accountability. February 2007.
- "GAO recommends that DHS (1) ensure that future expenditure plans include explicit and measurable commitments relative to the capabilities, schedule, costs, and benefits associated with individual SBInet program activities; (2) modify the SBInet contract to include a maximum quantity or dollar value; and (3) re-examine the level of concurrency and appropriately adjust the acquisition strategy. DHS concurred with the first and third recommendations, but not the second. DHS stated that the contract already contains a maximum quantity. GAO disagrees and believes DHS needs to modify the contract to ensure compliance with regulations."
Source: Government Accountability Office (All by Source | Source Website). Report Number: GAO-07-309.
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Border Security
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Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act, as Passed by the House of Representatives. January 2007.
- "The Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act, H.R. 5825, 109th Congress, was one of a number of bills introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives addressing various aspects of the [Terrorist Surveillance Program] and a variety of approaches to electronic surveillance of terrorists and those affiliated with them. This bill was designed to enhance flexibility in electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information, while requiring increased reporting and congressional oversight of these activities. The measure was introduced on July 18, 2006, and passed the House on September 28, 2006. This report summarizes the bill as passed by the House and analyzes the potential impact of its provisions were they to become law."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source).
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Government :
Homeland Security :
Intelligence and Intelligence Sharing :
Legal Material :
National Security
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Homeland Security: Progress Has Been Made to Address the Vulnerabilities Exposed by 911. January 2007.
- "The report discusses how: (1) commercial aviation security has been enhanced; (2) visa-related policies and programs have evolved to help screen out potential terrorists; (3) federal border security initiatives have evolved to reduce the likelihood of terrorists entering the country through legal checkpoints; and (4) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies are addressing several major post-9/11 strategic challenges. The report reflects conclusions and recommendations from a body of work issued before and after 9/11 by GAO, the Inspectors General of DHS, State, and Justice, the 9/11 Commission, and others."
Source: Government Accountability Office (All by Source | Source Website). Report Number: GAO-07-375.
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Aviation Security :
Border Security :
Government :
Homeland Security :
National Security :
National Strategies :
Presidential Decision Directives :
September 11 :
State Homeland Security Plans and Agencies
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National Security Surveillance Act of 2006. January 2007.
- "In a January 17, 2007, letter to Chairman Leahy and Senator Specter of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Gonzales advised them that, on January 10, 2007, a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge 'issued orders authorizing the Government to target for collection international communications into or out of the United States where there is probable cause to believe that one of the communicants is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an associated terrorist organization.' In light of these orders, which 'will allow the necessary speed and agility,' he stated that all surveillance previously occurring under the TSP will now be conducted subject to the approval of the FISC."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL33650.
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Information Sharing and Analysis :
Intelligence and Intelligence Sharing :
National Security
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U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT): Overview and Application to Interrogation Techniques. January 2007.
- This report discusses four acts of Congress dealing with the issue of torture: The Detainee Treatment Act (DTA), Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 (P.L. 109-148), the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2006 (P.L. 109-163), which contain a provision prohibiting “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment of persons under the detention, custody, or control of the United States Government”, and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-366).
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL32438.
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Regional, Hemispheric, or Limited Jurisdiction Agreements
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National Security Surveillance Act of 2006. 2007.
- "One of the bills considered in the 109th Congress, S. 3886, the Terrorist Tracking, Identification, and Prosecution Act of 2006, was introduced by Senator William H. Frist on September 11, 2006. Title II of S. 3886, the National Security Surveillance Act of 2006, substantively parallels S. 2453 as reported out of the
Senate Judiciary Committee without a written report. This report summarizes Title II of S. 3886/S. 2453, as reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and compares its language with the existing provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as amended, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RL33650.
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"Terrorism" and Related Terms in Statute and Regulation: Selected Language. December 2006.
- "Congress has used the term “terrorism” often in legislation. Hundreds of federal statutes and regulations already refer to “terrorism” and related terms in a variety of other contexts. However, these statutes and regulations ultimately refer to an extremely small set of statutory definitions, current criminal law and immigration definitions among them. This report provides the current text of a few of the fundamental
definitions."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RS21021.
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Legal Material :
Secondary Legal Material
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Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004: "Lone Wolf" Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. December 2006.
- This report explains in detail the significance of amending the definition of “agent of a foreign power” in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 50 U.S.C. § 1801 Section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004,P.L. 108-458.
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RS22011.
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Special Operations Forces (SOF) and CIA Paramilitary Operations: Issues for Congress. December 2006.
- "The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that responsibility for directing and executing paramilitary operations should be shifted from the CIA to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The President directed the Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence to review this recommendation and present their advice by mid-February 2005, but ultimately, they did not recommend a transfer of paramilitary responsibilities. This Report will briefly describe special operations conducted by DOD and paramilitary operations conducted by the CIA and discuss the background of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source). Report Number: RS22017.
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Government :
National Strategies
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Terrorism and Related Terms in Statute and Regulation: Selected Language. December 2006.
- "Congress has used the term 'terrorism' often in legislation. Hundreds of federal statutes and regulations already refer to 'terrorism' and related terms in a variety of other contexts. However, these statutes and regulations ultimately refer to an extremely small set of statutory definitions, current criminal law and immigration definitions among them. This report provides the current text of a few of the fundamental
definitions."
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS), United States (All by Source).
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Proceedings - Congressional Hearings, Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, etc.
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