NSA Surveillance Program Violated Congressional Notification Law国家安全局的监视计划违反了国会法的通知
Luke O’Brien卢克奥布莱恩
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The Bush administration may have broken a law requiring broader congressional notification of intelligence activities when it authorized an NSA warrantless wiretapping program that snooped on American citizens after 9/11.布什政府可能已经违反了有关法律规定，广泛国会通报情报活动时，它授权美国国家安全局开展窃听计画snooped对美国公民后， 9 / 11 。 The Hill山 reports 报告 today that Democrats are beginning to make noise over the White House’s decision to limit its disclosure of the NSA program to the “gang of eight” — the leaders of both parties from the House and the Senate and the chairs and ranking members of the intelligence committees in both houses of Congress.今天表示，民主派人士开始制造噪音超过白宫的决定，以限制其披露国家安全局的计划， "四人帮八国" -双方领导人由众议院和参议院和椅子排名成员组成情报委员会在国会两院的政党。
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).四年来，只有这个小团体的国会议员知道国家安全局的计划，绕开外国情报监视法院在刺探美国人（借助大型电信） 。 But the program may have circumvented a 1991但该计划可能规避了1991年制订的一项 law 法 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.允许行政部门只能披露其与窥探，只有在高度敏感的案件，涉及秘密活动，在海外，而不是在实例的外国或国内搜集情报的工作。 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.根据法律规定，通过后，伊朗门，让国会有更多的监督权的行政机关，搜集情报，并要上报全部情报委员会的众议院和参议院组成。
A Congressional Research Service国会研究服务局 report 报告 (.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.” （ PDF格式）去年重申了在何种条件下，总统可以扣压资料，从国会，并说"国家安全局的监视计划，将出现下跌，更加紧密地定义下的一个情报搜集计划，而不是有资格作为一个秘密行动计划界定规约" 。
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