NEWSMAX DEBUNKED, Clinton signed HR 1555, reigning in NSA

[LSK]

ECHELON
The NSA is Out-Of-Control.
NSA even refused a request of the Select Committee on Intelligence for "POLICY" information.
HR 1555 calls the NSA on the mat.


The following is an extract of Section 309 of H.R. 1555. The full bill can be found at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.1555.ENR:

SEC. 309. REPORT ON LEGAL STANDARDS APPLIED FOR ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.

(a) REPORT- Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of Central Intelligence, the Director of the National Security Agency, and the Attorney General shall jointly prepare, and the Director of the National Security Agency shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees, a report in classified and unclassified form providing a detailed analysis of the legal standards employed by elements of the intelligence community in conducting signals intelligence activities, including electronic surveillance.

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http://www.actionamerica.org/echelon/echelon1555.html

[lonestarnot]

1. ewwwwwwwwww! Pants down!

[Beelzebud]

2. Thanks. Maybe people will realize Newsmax is NOT reliable at all.

[ck4829]

3. Kick

[LSK]

4. another source

"Events in the United States have also indicated that the "wall of silence" might not last much longer. Exercising their Constitutionally created oversight authority, members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence started asking questions about the legal basis for NSA's ECHELON activities. In particular, the Committee wanted to know if the communications of Americans were being intercepted and under what authority, since US law severely limits the ability of the intelligence agencies to engage in domestic surveillance. When asked about its legal authority, NSA invoked the attorney-client privilege and refused to disclose the legal standards by which ECHELON might have conducted its activities. (27)

President Clinton then signed into law a funding bill which required the NSA to report on the legal basis for ECHELON and similar activities. (28) However, the subsequent report (entitled Legal Standards for the Intelligence Community in Conducting Electronic Surveillance) gave few details about Echelon's operations and legality. (29) "

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ECHELON

[mmonk]

5. I missed what Newsmax said.

link?

[LSK]

8. newsmax link

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/19/114807.shtml

[mmonk]

9. Thanks

[LostInAnomie]

6. You would think that eventually freepers would catch on...

... that Newsmax is ALWAYS wrong. Every time they have some kind of scoop it always turns out to be bullshit. I have never seen a freeper cite a newsmax story that actually turned out to be true.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. I think they do realize rags like that is usually wrong.

They just don't care. As long as they agree with what they put out whether it's wrong or not, it doesn't matter. Nine times out of ten their info is bogus towards Democrats.

[hyphenate]

12. Oh, I don't know

I am acquainted with some folks who believe Newsmax entirely. But then, they're also the ones who listen to Oxyrush, think Mann Coulter is "hot" and believe Faux should get a Pulitzer!

[underpants]

10. 1. Rush read this today-BIG talking point for the right 2. Newsmax

doesn't scoop anything they simply take wire reports and spin them.

[tsuki]

14. They don't care about anything but how big the Clenis is. The

Constitution, dirty old piece of paper. Privacy, don't worry, he's spying on the Dems. But the real crime is the size of the Clenis.

[slipslidingaway]

11. Thanks!

[Maine-ah]

13. I'm pretty ignorant on the legal mumbo-jumbo

can some one explain this to me in layman's terms?

[Joe Chi Minh]

15. Bill's record keeps biting them in the bum, still - and that,

despite their relentless attempts to hamstring his presidency. 1500 subpoenas to 3?