Well over a year after the New York Times exposed the warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) domestic eavesdropping program, the Justice Department and the Intelligence Community have submitted their proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The NSA program circumvented the FISA and the FISA court from 2001 until earlier this year, when some sort of accomodation was made allowing the FISA to approve of monitoring.
Posted on Secrecy News yesterday:
"Today, following over a year of coordinated effort among the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice a bill is being submitted to Congress to request long overdue changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," according to an April 13 fact sheet (pdf) on the proposed changes issued by the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The text of the proposed legislative changes to FISA, with a section by section analysis, may be obtained here (pdf).
POGO has not made an analysis of the Administration's proposal, but the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that the proposal is an "attempt to erode the Fourth Amendment and its protections."
-- Nick Schwellenbach
Comments