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...“I don’t think the Department of Justice fairly treated these FISAs and he was on the receiving end,” Mr Horowitz said of Mr Page, who disclosed this week that he was a CIA asset, has never been charged...
...“Much of that information was inconsistent with, or undercut, the assertions contained in the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] applications that were used to support probable cause and, in some...
...Totalling more than 400 pages, the documents show four court applications the US government made in 2016 and 2017 to obtain a warrant to surveil Mr Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa...
...It is telling the FISA court authorised the renewal of the Page warrant several times after the Steele dossier had become the subject of a public controversy....
...“To the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the Fisa process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower . . ....
...Can a president order a FISA warrant? Not directly, as the FISA law requires the Department of Justice to make the application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC....
...“Paul Ryan knows that — he voted to reauthorise FISA weeks ago, but he approves the memo’s release and calls for the FBI to be ‘cleansed’ because he’s mimicking the talking points that the Republican base...
...On the other hand, if it was with a legal Fisa court order, then an application for surveillance exists that the court found credible.”...
...“If true, it is a felony to reveal the existence of a Fisa warrant, regardless of the fact that no charges ever emerged,” said Jason Maloni, spokesman for Mr Manafort....
...American tech companies are not even allowed to reveal when they have been ordered to hand over information by the secret FISA court, charged with homeland security....
...And it requires that the secret foreign intelligence court publish legal opinions that change the scope of information that can be collected....
...We are still pushing for the FISC to release materials from the 2007-2008 case in the lower court.”...
...The FBI does not need to go to court to issue an NSL, which cannot be used in ordinary criminal, civil or administrative matters....
...The case in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court came after leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed widespread secret data mining programmes by the NSA and associated agencies....
...That said, the potential for mission creep is inescapable, given an appointed Fisa court that has almost never seen a warrant request it did not like. The central issue here is accountability....
...European scepticism about the privacy protections in Fisa is understandable....
...A coalition of 85 internet companies and organisations launched a grassroots internet campaign on Tuesday demanding more transparency about NSA activities and Fisa court orders and called on Congress to...
...Google already reveals more detailed information than others about certain classes of government order – such as national security letters that are not issued by the FISA court – and argues that supplying...
...The credibility of the Fisa courts is also relevant to the discussion of drone strikes....
...To access conversations, the Fisa court had to issue a specific order....
...Until now, internet companies have been forbidden from revealing that they have received secret court orders for information about users outside the US made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
...“We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order.”...
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...Critics of the government surveillance activities say that special courts that issue national security warrants, known as Fisa courts after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, are little more than...
...The idea was to keep vulture investors from pursuing sovereigns in foreign courts, and give a supervisory role of some kind to the IMF....
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