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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, …

… Finding that Movants have adequately established Article III standing to assert their claim of a qualified First Amendment right of public access to FISC judicial opinion; Particularly, Movants have demonstrated that the …

… Authorizing collection of all post-cut-through digits under a PR/TT order in the absence of reasonably available technology to distinguish between content and non-content DRAS, subject to a prohibition on the affirmative …

… Bringing down the wall, overturning the FISA Ct. ruling, and allowing foreign intelligence searches to be used even when the primary purpose of the collection is a criminal investigation. … In re Sealed Case, 310 F.3d 717, …

… The Court held that proposed FBI query procedures failed to comply with §702(f)(1)(B) insofar as they did not include a procedure whereby FBI personnel document, to the extent reasonably feasible, whether a particular …

… Finding that “the lower court property denied the motion for discovery” of FISA applications. 1990 WL 101946, at *3. … United States v. Brown, Nos. 89-5404 to 89-5407, 908 F.2d 968 (Table), 1990 WL 101946 (4th Cir. 1990). …

… Affirming “the district court’s denial of [defendant’s] motion to suppress or disclose evidence obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”)” 535 F. App'x at 378. … United States v. Hasan, No. …

… Concluding that “the FISA warrant was supported by probable cause.” 751 F. App’x at 1000. Finding that “the government’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) search and subsequent use of FISA-derived materials in …

… Plaintiffs seek injunctive and declaratory relief that bulk collection constates an unlawful search under the Fourth Amendment. 800 F.3d at 561. The Court reversed the lower court’s preliminary injunction (which was stayed …

… Before the Court was a petition by Movants to reconsider the lower court’s opinion rejecting the claim that the withholding of redacted, non-public material classified by the Executive Branch violates the Movants' First …

… Action was brought against the NSA challenging three redactions based in two reports relating to the PR/TT program. Id. at 376. The NSA declaration indicated that FOIA Exemption 1 applied to these redactions because …