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NACDL comments to the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Rules Committee, and FISC Presiding Judge regarding proposed amendments to FISC Rules of Procedure 7(j); 11(d); 13(a)(4), (a)(S) & (b)(4); 17(b), (c) & (d); 62(a); and 63.
Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed changes to procedures in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Coalition letter to the House Judiciary Committee regarding the need for reforms to the drafted USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020 relating to mass and unwarranted surveillance.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of a 2002 decision of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court imposing certain “minimization requirements” on an order authorizing electronic surveillance of an “agent of a foreign power” who is a American citizen.
