NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

Articles and editorials

Feinstein, NSA’s Top Congressional Defender, Has Built Respect Over Decades of Service, S5243 [26JN]

Latest NSA Spying Revelations Distract From the Real Issues, S7872 [6NO]

Bills and resolutions

Committee To Investigate and Report on the Surveillance Operations of the National Security Agency (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 350), H5654 [18SE]

Director and Inspector General: require to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate (see H.R. 3436), H6953 [30OC]

Privacy: allow access to certain business records only if an investigation relates to a specific individual or specific group of individuals (see H.R. 2603), H4174 [28JN]

——— consolidate congressional oversight provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (see S. 1631), S7728 [31OC]

——— prohibit any U.S. agency, including the National Security Agency, from searching telephone records of U.S. citizens without a warrant based on probable cause (see S. 1121), S4021 [7JN]

——— reform access to certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations (see H.R. 3070), H5434 [9SE]

——— strengthen transparency and oversight of domestic surveillance, protect privacy, and improve due process procedures relative to intelligence community and law enforcement information sharing (see S. 1701), S8049 [14NO]

Senate: express that President Obama should issue a statement regarding National Security Agency spying on Pope Francis (see S. Res. 281), S7729 [31OC]

Letters

Intelligence services authority to collect business records under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Peter J. Kadzik, Dept. of Justice, H5025 [24JY]

Remarks in House

Clapper, Director of National Intelligence: call for resignation or termination due to allegations of mismanaging Government surveillance programs, H5375 [2AU]

Congress: legislative priorities, H3766 [19JN]

Director and Inspector General: require to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate (H.R. 3436), H7337 [21NO]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H3263 [11JN]

Holder, Attorney General: call for resignation or termination due to allegations of mismanaging Government surveillance programs, H5375 [2AU]

Information technology: operation of PRISM online data collection program, H3640–H3642 [14JN], H6834 [29OC]

Obama, President: evaluation of administration, H3293 [12JN]

——— evaluation of administration relative to alleged abuse of power, intimidation, and lack of accountability by Federal agencies, H6906 [30OC]

——— evaluation of administration relative to constitutional role of Congress and separation of powers, H4862 [23JY]

Privacy: open records requests from U.S. citizens relative to domestic surveillance program, H7169 [18NO]

——— prohibit funding to acquire information for purpose of targeting U.S. citizens or to acquire, monitor, or store electronic communications by citizens, H5022, H5023 [24JY]

——— prohibit funding to any U.S. agency, including the National Security Agency, to collect records that pertain to persons not subject to an investigation, H4991, H5022–H5027 [24JY], E1130 [24JY], E1135, E1145 [25JY], E1244 [2AU]

Verizon Communications, Inc.: collection of customer phone records as part of counterterrorism efforts, H3240–H3242 [6JN], H3261, H3274, H3282 [11JN], H3295, H3296, H3297 [12JN], H3640–H3642 [14JN], H3692 [18JN], H4086 [27JN], H4989 [24JY]

Remarks in Senate

Classified information: prevent security breaches and ensure accountability for leaks of classified information, S7871 [6NO]

Director: require to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, S8347 [20NO]

Information technology: operation of PRISM online data collection program, S4510 [17JN]

Intelligence services: require public disclosure of information relative to surveillance activities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, S8346–S8348 [20NO]

Privacy: prohibit any U.S. agency, including the National Security Agency, from searching telephone records of U.S. citizens without a warrant based on probable cause, S4203 [11JN], S6052–S6056 [30JY]

——— prohibit any U.S. agency, including the National Security Agency, from searching telephone records of U.S. citizens without a warrant based on probable cause (S. 1121), S4024 [7JN], S4027 [10JN]

——— strengthen transparency and oversight of domestic surveillance, protect privacy, and improve due process procedures relative to intelligence community and law enforcement information sharing (S. 1701), S8346 [20NO]

Snowden, Edward: fugitive status while seeking political asylum relative to disclosure of National Security Agency operation of PRISM online data collection program, S4995 [24JN]

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: repeal or reform certain provisions, S5782 [18JY], S6052–S6056 [30JY]

Reports filed

FISA Improvements Act: Committee on Intelligence (Senate, Select) (S. 1631), S7724 [31OC]

——— Committee on Intelligence (Senate, Select) (S. 1631) (S. Rept. 113–119), S7951 [12NO]

Statements

Amash Amendment to H.R. 2397, Dept. of Defense Apppropriations, Prohibiting Funding to Any U.S. Agency To Collect Records That Pertain to Persons Not Subject to an Investigation: Representative Van Hollen, E1170 [31JY]

Texts of

S. Res. 281, express that President Obama should issue a statement regarding National Security Agency spying on Pope Francis, S7733 [31OC]