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… Discusses extension of three FISA-related provisions: USA PATRIOT Act Section 206 (amending FISA to permit roving wiretaps); USA PATRIOT Act § 215 (tangible goods); and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act …

… Discusses controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act and exploring the arguments that undergirded support for and opposition to the measures. … EDWARD C. LIU & CHARLES DOYLE, CONG. RES. SERV., R40980, GOVERNMENT …

… Describes § 215 bulk telephony metadata program and § 702 interception of Internet-based communications targeted at foreigners underseas that inadvertently acquires U.S. persons’ communications. Addresses constitutional …

… Discussing H.R. 5949 (which extended Title VII of FISA until Dec. 31, 2017), and addressing the contours of Title VII, as well as the subsequent litigation. … EDWARD C. LIU, CONG. RES. SERV., R42725, REAUTHORIZATION OF THE …

… Edward Liu discusses the use and implementation of § 702. Specifically, the scope of acquisitions, certifications procedures, exigent circumstances, and constitutional challenges. … EDWARD C. LIU, CONG. RES. SERV., R44457, …

… Granting the application for bulk telephony metadata collection, holding that “ _Smith v. Maryland_ compels the conclusion that there is no Fourth Amendment impediment to the collection,” comparing §215 to the Stored …

… Ordering an Amended Memorandum Opinion to fix footnote numbering in original Opinion. … Order, In re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring Production of Tangible Things from [REDACTED], …

… Order consolidating the briefing schedules in matters 13-03, 13-04, 13-05, 13-06, and 13-07, allowing the government to file a single response to the Motions for declaratory judgment by Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, …

… Date Redacted … Order issuing an Amended Memorandum Opinion solely for the purpose of correcting the numbering of the footnotes of the Memorandum Opinion. … Order, [REDACTED], No. [REDACTED], GID.C.00249 (FISA Ct.) (Eagan, …

… “FISA contains both a notice clause as well as an exclusionary procedure for illegally seized electronic surveillance” but “[t]he telling absence of grand juries from Section 1806(c) allows the government to introduce FISA …

… Holding that the FISA statute meets Fourth amendment constitutional requirements. 835 F.2d at 1075. The Court further found that the application for surveillance was made properly, with the primary purpose being to gather …