National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations A Glimpse at the Legal Background

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Laws, etc. (Statutes of the United States).

United States.

Courts.

Crime.

Criminal procedure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2013

Summary:

Summarizes statutory authority of intelligence officials to issue national security letters (NSLs) to compel certain types of service providers to produce records of their customers and other items relevant to terrorism investigations. Provides background on NSLs, reviews 109th Congress amendments to NSL statutes, addresses NSLs in court, presents comparison of NSL attributes, and reviews Department of Justice Inspector General report on FBI use of NSLs. Summarizes recommendations of the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies ecently established by President Obama, in wake of leaks relating to NSA purported bulk meta-data collection program

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 07-RS-22406a in the 2007 issue

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations

Publisher Number:

CRS-2014-AML-0002

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