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Steven Aftergood: Congress to Public: Butt Out — We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Intelligence Oversight or Public Accountability — ESPECIALLY on Drones and Assassinations

Intelligence Oversight Steps Back from Public Accountability The move by Congress to renew the FISA Amendments Act for five more years without amendments came as a bitter disappointment to civil libertarians who believe that the Act emphasizes government surveillance authority at the expense of constitutional protections.  Amendments that were offered to provide more public information …

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David Isenberg: James Howcroft on Making Intelligence Relevant in the 21st Century

Making Intelligence Relevant for the Missions of the 21st Century by James Howcroft Small Wars Journal | December 19, 2012 The international challenges which threaten the security of the United States and our partners in the 21st century are not primarily posed by conventional military forces. Despite the “pivot” toward a conventional peer competitor in …

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DefDog: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Shines on 4th Amendment

Gov’t surveillance ‘unreasonable’ & violated the 4th amendment ‘at least once’ Ms. Smith NetworkWorld, 23 July 2012 The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified three of Sen. Wyden’s comments about FISA power. It also admitted the U.S. has violated the Fourth Amendment at least once when it comes to warrantless wiretaps done under …

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Court Decision (NOT Congress Oversight) Declared NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Illegal

Court document: Alharamain versus National Security Administration (From Secrecy News) WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF CHARITY RULED UNLAWFUL Warrantless surveillance of an Islamic charity in Oregon in 2004 violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a court ruled (pdf) on March 31. In the culmination of a four-year lawsuit, Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of …

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Handbook: Harvard on Congress & Intelligence

Confrontation or Collaboration? Congress and the Intelligence Community Memorandum, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School July 2009 Authors: Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Aki J. Peritz CONTENTS Click any of the links below to read and download the individual memos online. You can …

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