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National Security Letters — Part 1

1188 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Dec 4, 1981 · Broad topic: General · Topic: National Security Letters · 1018 pages OCR'd
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To: All Divisions From: Office of the General Counsel Re: 319X-HQO-A1487720-06C, 04/07/2006 Congressional Reporting on FISA Physical Search authority: Reporting cycle: Attorney General will report on a semiannual basis. Congressional * House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committees: * House Judiciary Committee * Senate Select Committee on Intelligence * Senate Judiciary Committee Report the following regarding emergency physical searches — * Total number of applications. | + Total number of orders granted, modified, or denied. * Number of physical searches involving the residences, offices, or personal property of U.S. persons, and the number of occasions the AG provided notice, * Total number of emergency authorizations, and total number of subsequent orders approving or denying the physical searches. Reporting categories: Congressional Reporting on FISA Pen Register and Trap and Trace authonty: Reporting cycle: _ | Attorney General! will report on a semiannual basis. Congressional + House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committees: : * House Judiciary Committee So « Senate Select Committee on Intelligence « Senate Judiciary Committee Reporting categories: Report the following regarding pen registers/trap and trace — - oot, . 4 © Total number of applications. * Total number of orders granted, modified, or denied. « Total number of emergency authorizations, and total number subsequent orders approving or denying the pen registers/trap and trace. Procedural Changes Related to Enhanced Congressional Oversight: If necessary, OIPR and FBI OGC will publish guidance in response to the new provisions, OJPR will retain responsibility for reporting to Congress on FISA related activities, FISA PEN REGISTER/TRAP AND TRACE CHANGES Sec, 128, PATRIOT Section 214; Authority for Disclosure of Additional Information in Connection with Orders for Pen Register and Trap and Trace Authority under FISA. Congress modified the FISA pen register and trap and trace devices authority to give the FBI access to more information through this authority. The pertinent portion of the new statute describing the information available to the FBI is reproduced here (highlights added): FISA § 402 [50 U.S.C. § 1842]. Pen registers and trap and trace devices for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations. 12
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