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Ley del congreso violada programa de la notificación de la vigilancia del NSA
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Lucas O' Brien
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La administración de Bush pudo haber roto una ley que requiere una notificación del congreso más amplia de las actividades de la inteligencia cuando autorizó un programa warrantless de la interceptación de teléfonos del NSA que snooped en ciudadanos americanos después de 9/11. La colina informes ese los demócratas están comenzando hoy a hacer ruido sobre la decisión de la casa blanca para limitar su acceso del programa del NSA a la “cuadrilla de ocho” - los líderes de las partes de la casa y el senado y los miembros de las sillas y el alinear de los comités de la inteligencia en ambas casas del congreso.
For four years, only this small group of lawmakers was aware of the NSA program, which bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in spying on Americans (with the help of major telecoms). But the program may have circumvented a 1991 law that allows the administration to limit disclosure of its snooping only in highly sensitive cases involving covert activity overseas, not in instances of foreign or domestic intelligence gathering. Under the law, passed after the Iran-Contra scandal to give Congress better oversight of the executive branch, intelligence gathering must be reported to the full intelligence committees of the House and the Senate.
A Congressional Research Service report (.pdf) last year reaffirmed the conditions under which the president can withhold information from Congress and said that “the NSA surveillance program would appear to fall more closely under the definition of an intelligence collection program, rather than qualify as a covert action program as defined by statute.”
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