Coalition letter to the House Judiciary Committee regarding concerns with the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (H.R. 6304), as it comes up for reauthorization (FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012, H.R. 5949).

Coalition letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee leadership regarding the Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts (JUSTICE) Act S. 1686 (2009).

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January 30, 2006 The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. Chairman Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Ranking Member Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Sensenbrenner a

RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 File Name: 07a0253p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT _________________ AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, et al., Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees

September 25, 2007 Senator Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Majority Leader: We, the undersigned privacy, civil liberties, government openness and faith-based organizations, write to ask you to insist on public hearings on any proposed legislation to alter the Foreign Intelligen

Order Code RL33833 The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview January 24, 2007 Elizabeth B. Bazan Legislative Attorney American Law DivisionThe U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Co

NACDL is writing to offer its qualified support for the Manager’s Substitute Amendment to the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699). As amended, the Act updates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the law that sets standards for government access to private internet communications, to reflect internet users’ reasonable expectations of privacy with respect to emails, texts, notes, photos, and other sensitive information stored in “the cloud.”

As civil liberties groups and other organizations advancing the public interest, we write this letter today to strongly urge you to oppose S. 1631, the FISA Improvements Act. The FISA Improvements Act does not offer real reform to stop the NSA's mass collection of our communications and communications records. Instead, S. 1631 seeks to entrench some of the worst forms of NSA surveillance into US law and to extend the NSA surveillance programs in unprecedented ways.

Coalition Letter On Yahoo Surveillance Revelations

NACDL joined a coalition letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 30, 2013, urging Congress to evaluate how surveillance authorities, for example national security letter authorities, overlap, expand or complement the specific authorities under sections 215 and 702.

June 26, 2014 Majority Leader Harry Reid United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Chairman Dianne Feinstein U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Washington, DC 20510 Republican Leader Mitch McConnell United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelli

June 18, 2014 Majority Leader Harry Reid United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Chairman Patrick J. Leahy U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Washington, DC 20510 Chairman Dianne Feinstein U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Washington, DC 20510 Republican Leader Mitch McConnell United States Senate Wa