Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Events (76)
- December 10, 2007: McConnell Calls for Immunity for Telecom Firms, Expanded Surveillance Capabilities 2007-12-10
- December 12, 2007: Mukasey Calls for Immunity for Telecom Firms, Expanded Surveillance Capabilities 2007-12-12
- January 16, 2008: Director of National Intelligence Falsely Claims US Intelligence Was Not Allowed to Track 9/11 Hijackers in US 2008-01-16
- January 30, 2008: Olbermann: Bush’s Call for Telecom Immunity ‘Textbook Example of Fascism’ 2008-01-30
- February 5, 2008: New Surveillance Laws Would Allow NSA to ‘Filter,’ Monitor Domestic Phone, Internet Traffic 2008-02-05
- February 16, 2008: Analysts Say PAA Not Important in Nation’s Wiretapping Operations 2008-02-16
- February 23, 2008: Bush Insists on Telecom Immunity, Claims Democrats Put Trial Lawyers before Nation’s Safety 2008-02-23
- June 27, 2008: AT&T Whistleblower: FISA Amendment Creates ‘Infrastructure for a Police State’ 2008-06-27
- July 10, 2008: FISA Amendment Act Signed into Law; Restores ‘Protect America Act’ Provisions, Grants Telecoms Immunity from Prosecution 2008-07-10
- October 17, 2008: Civil Liberties Organizations Sues over Disputed Constitutionality of FISA Amendment Legislation 2008-10-17
- January 5, 2009: Judge Rules Wiretapping Lawsuit Can Continue 2009-01-05
- March 2000: FBI Agent Apparently Destroys Al-Qaeda E-Mail Intercepts
- March 2001: Justice Department Investigation Finds FISA Applications Are Misleading
- April 2001: Surveillance of Al-Qaeda and Hamas in US Curtailed
- May 2000: ’Wall’ Procedures Criticized by Another Report
- July 1999: Campaign Finance Report Criticizes ‘Wall’ Procedures
- October 2000: FISA Court Imposes New Requirements on Dissemination of Intelligence
- Early 1980s: FBI Encounters Problems Passing Intelligence Information to Criminal Prosecutors, ‘Wall’ Arises
- (Late 1995-1997): Additional Restrictions Placed on Sharing of Intelligence inside FBI
- Late 1999-Early 2000: ’Wall’ Procedures Altered for Expected Millennium Attacks
- Summer-October 2000: Al-Qaeda Counterterrorism Squad Found to be Illegally Sharing Information with Prosecutors
- October 2001: NSA Creates Massive Database of US Citizens’ Phone Calls
- December 2002: Lawmakers Informed of Secret NSA Surveillance and Data Mining Programs
- February 2003: Scientist Says Congress Terminated TIA but Kept Massive US Data Mining Alive
- February 2004: Contempt for FISA in White House Astonishes OLC Head Goldsmith
- 1978: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Becomes Law