Legislative Proposals to Update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, September 6, 2006U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006 - 110 pages |
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Page 26 - President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Page 64 - We should not require the warrant procedure and the magistrate's judgment if the President of the United States or his chief legal officer, the Attorney General, has considered the requirements of national security and authorized electronic surveillance as reasonable.
Page 35 - Center for Democracy and Technology is a non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to promoting civil liberties and democratic values for the new digital communications media.
Page 39 - ... purposes, and if both the sender and all intended recipients are located within the United States; or (4) the installation or use of an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device in the United States for monitoring to acquire information, other than from a wire or radio communication, under circumstances in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes. (g) "Attorney General" means the Attorney General of the United...
Page 27 - No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.
Page 49 - They deserve our full support and every means of help that we can provide. We're dealing with terrorists who operate by highly sophisticated methods and technologies, some of which were not even available when our existing laws were written.
Page 29 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.
Page 29 - We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President's constitutional power.
Page 27 - Act of 1978, and procedures in this chapter and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance, as defined in section 101 of such Act, and the interception of domestic wire and oral communications may be conducted.
Page 104 - Yoo, then deputy assistant attorney general, who described the "broad constitutional power" of the president that prohibited any limits on the president's "determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing, and nature of the response.