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...Then came the intelligence-gathering abuses of the Nixon years, when the NSA as well as the FBI were used by the White House to spy on civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activists. In 1978 Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which required the NSA to obtain a warrant any time it sought to monitor communications within the U.S. (Outside the U.S., it still enjoys a free hand.) The new law created the FISA court, an 11-member secret panel whose job it is to hear the NSA requests and issue--or deny--the warrants...
...perform data mining, combing by computer through billions of phone calls and Internet messages and looking for patterns that may point to terrorist activity. That requires sifting through a mountain of individual communications to find the one that might lead to something. Under FISA, the NSA would have to obtain a warrant for each suspect phone number. Authorities argue that the FISA process is too slow to cover a situation in which a known terrorist calls a number in the U.S. not already covered by a FISA warrant...
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...leader Mao Tse-Tung’s Little Red Book through an interlibrary loan. Robert E. Pontbriand, a professor of history at UMass-Dartmouth, said that the student was a member of his course on fascism and totalitarianism. About two months ago, the student used an interlibrary loan to obtain the authoritative version of the Little Red Book for a research paper on Mao, Pontbriand said. The student was subsequently visited by a person or persons who identified themselves as agents of the Department of Homeland Security. He also told Pontbriand that he had been singled out because...
...demand records of individuals who are suspected terrorists or spies themselves or have an explicit connection to suspected terrorists or spies. But Carter said that the FBI does not have the resources or the desire to go on “fishing expeditions.” In order to obtain records of the books an individual has checked out, Carter said, the FBI needs approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court, whose proceedings are not open to the public. The FBI can request other records, including those of internet usage or e-mail addresses, by issuing a National...