Anglo-American Privacy and Surveillance

According to Rep. Jane Harman, instead of telling the full committees in both houses about the recent NSA's domestic spy program, the executive branch only gave notice to the 'Gang of Eight'-the majority and minority leaders of both houses, and the chairs and ranking members of the co...

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Published in:The journal of criminal law & criminology 2006-03, Vol.96 (3), p.1059-1208
Main Author: Donohue, Laura K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys general
Checks and Balances
CIA
Civil rights movement
Civil rights movements
Crime
Criminal Law
Electronic surveillance
England
Executive branch
Government regulation
Human rights
Intelligence gathering
Intelligence services
Law
Law enforcement
Laws, regulations and rules
Legal Procedure
Legislation
National security
Patriot Act
Personal information
Police
Powell, Jerome
Privacy
Privacy, Right of
Probable cause
Property rights
Right of privacy
Search warrants
Searches and seizures
Social control
Statutory law
Surveillance
Technological change
Terrorism
U.S.A
United Kingdom
United States of America
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Summary:According to Rep. Jane Harman, instead of telling the full committees in both houses about the recent NSA's domestic spy program, the executive branch only gave notice to the 'Gang of Eight'-the majority and minority leaders of both houses, and the chairs and ranking members of the congressional intelligence committees.6 Although this would have constituted sufficient notification for covert action (which excludes activities aimed at acquiring information), Harmon claimed it stopped short of the statutory requirement. [...] physical searches of property conducted by the intelligence services, the interception of communications by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the use of covert surveillance or 'electronic bugs,' and the iunning of covert human intelligence sources operated under the legislative and judicial radars.
ISSN:0091-4169
2160-0325