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In re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC

19-00002 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This Clearinghouse entry focuses on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s (FISC) response to revelations of flawed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications against Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page. It includes the following dockets: • The FBI Office of the Inspector General “Crossfire Hurricane” Report. This isn’t a docket, but important background information that influenced the FISC’s decisionmaking. • Misc. 19-02 in the FISC For more inf…
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FISA Docket PR-TT ---- (Walton, J.) (February 2009)

PR-TT [Redacted] | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: 2009

Closed Date: 2009

For the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA matters, see our special collection.On November 18, 2013, the Director of National Intelligence authorized the declassification and public release of numerous orders approving the National Security Agency's ("NSA") so-called "Bulk Internet Metadata Program" under Section 402 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA"), commonly referred to as the Pen Register and Trap and Trace (PR/TT) provision, or Section 214 o…
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United States v. Daher

2:18-cr-20559 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2022

This is a federal criminal case where the government attempted to introduce evidence obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). On August 14, 2018, two operators of a Detroit gas station were indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for the crime of defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The defendants allegedly bought SNAP funds from recipients with cash at a discounted price, then fraudulently billed th…
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Motion of Thomas C. Goldstein For Appointment As Amicus Curiae and For Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief [FISA Docket Misc. 18-04]

18-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2018

Closed Date: April 11, 2019

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires the government to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) before it may conduct any domestic electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information. The warrant applications are made ex parte and must include a sworn statement by a federal officer of the facts and circumstances relied upon to justify the government's belief that the target of surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a f…
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In re Opinions and Orders of this Court Containing Novel or Significant Interpretations of Law [FISA Docket Misc. 16-01; FISCR Docket Misc. 20-02]

16-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2016

Case Ongoing

For the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) matters, see our special collection. On October 19, 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic of Yale Law School filed this motion in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to unseal all of the court's orders and opinions containing "novel or significant interpretations of law" issued between September 11, 2001, and the passage o…
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Mayfield v. United States

6:04-cv-01427 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2004

Closed Date: Nov. 5, 2007

On October 4, 2004, a practicing lawyer and his family members filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under Bivens and 50 U.S.C §§ 1804 and 1823 (electronic surveillance and physical searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief, alleging that the defendants conduc…
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In re [redacted], a U.S. Person

15-00052 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: June 16, 2015

Closed Date: 2015

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires the government to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) before it may conduct any domestic electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information. The warrant applications are made ex parte and must include a sworn statement by a federal officer of the facts and circumstances relied upon to justify the government's belief that the target of surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a f…
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Order Amending the Rules of Procedure for the Court [FISCR Docket 18-02]

18-00002 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: 2018

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires the government to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) before it may conduct any domestic electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information. The warrant applications are made ex parte and must include a sworn statement by a federal officer of the facts and circumstances relied upon to justify the government's belief that the target of surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a f…
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FISA Court Matters relating to disclosure of Carter Page surveillance records: Four FISC cases [FISC Misc. 18-01, Misc. 18-02, Misc. 18-03, and Misc. 19-01]

18-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

In October 2016, the U.S. government first applied for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Carter Page, the former foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The warrants against Page alleged that he made contact with Russian officials to obtain compromising material on Trump's 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton. For information on those warrants, their original applications, and ongoing efforts to protect the confidential information contained i…

Motion of Adam Goldman, Charlie Savage, and the New York Times Company for Publication of Court Records

In re Orders & Records of this Court Related to the Surveillance of Carter Page [Misc. 18-01]

Feb. 6, 2018

Motion of Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey for Leave to File Brief of Amici Curiae Asking the Court to Make Public the Disposition of Any Proceedings Concerning the Justice Department's Conduct Before This Court

In re Matters Before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Relating to Carter Page & Declassified by Order of the President on February 2, 2018 [FISA Docket Misc. 18-02]

Feb. 8, 2018

Supplemental Notice of the Public Release of Additional Declassified Information and Developments Further Supporting Publication of the Carter Page Surveillance Records

In re Orders & Records of this Court Related to the Surveillance of Carter Page [Misc. 18-01]

Feb. 14, 2018

Second Supplemental Notice of the Public Release of Additional Information Further Supporting Publication of the Carter Page Surveillance Records

In re Orders & Records of this Court Related to the Surveillance of Carter Page [Misc. 18-01]

March 27, 2018

Judicial Watch, Inc.'s Motion for Publication of Court Transcripts

In re Transcripts of this Court Related to the Surveillance of Carter Page [Misc. 18-03]

July 25, 2018

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In re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things from [redacted]

15-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: 2015

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Security Agency (NSA) began the bulk collection of "telephony metadata" from all available domestic phone calls. This metadata did not include the call's content or party names, but did include phone numbers placed and received; the date, time and duration of calls; some location identifiers; and calling card numbers. In 2006, the government sought and received approval of the program from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillanc…

Primary Order

In Re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things From [Redacted]

Aug. 27, 2015

Docket

In Re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things

Aug. 28, 2015

Order Appointing an Amicus Curiae

In Re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things

Sept. 17, 2015

Briefing Order

In Re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things

Oct. 7, 2015

Memorandum of Law by Amicus Curiae Regarding Government's August 27, 2015, Application to Retain and Use Certain Telephony Metadata After November 28, 2015

In Re Application of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an Order Requiring the Production of Tangible Things

Oct. 29, 2015

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