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Betreff: FC: Cops will share surveillance info with CIA, NSA, spooks
Datum: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:55:24 -0400
Von: Declan McCullagh <declan -!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AG
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2002(202) 514-2008
WWW.USDOJ.GOVTDD (202) 514-1888
ATTORNEY GENERAL ANNOUNCES NEW GUIDELINES
TO SHARE INFORMATION BETWEEN FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Attorney General announced today three new
guidelines designed to institutionalize the ongoing sharing of
information
between federal law enforcement and the U.S. intelligence
community. Pursuant to new authority and requirements contained in the
USA
PATRIOT Act, the guidelines issued today for Sections 203 and 905 of
that
Act will aid federal law enforcement and the intelligence community in
their cooperative fight against terrorism. These guidelines, together
with
the Justice Department's substantial information sharing efforts in the
last year, provide a framework for continued cooperation to ensure that
information about terrorism and other threats to national security is
shared expeditiously and fully among relevant government agencies.
Before passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, a prosecutor was not permitted to
disclose federal grand jury and electronic, wire, and oral interception
information to federal law enforcement, intelligence, protective,
immigration, national defense, or national security officials, even if
that
information indicated that terrorists were planning a future attack,
unless
such officials were assisting with the criminal investigation
itself. Section 203 of the USA PATRIOT Act allows the dissemination of
that information to assist these officials in the performance of their
official duties, such as protecting the nation's security, even if
unrelated to the criminal investigation. Today's guidelines establish
procedures for the disclosure to the intelligence community of grand
jury
and electronic, wire, and oral interception information that identifies
a
United States person, as defined by federal law. These procedures
require
that all such information be labeled by law enforcement agencies before
disclosure to intelligence agencies and be handled by intelligence
agencies
pursuant to specific protocols designed to ensure its appropriate use.
For
example, information identifying a U.S. person must be deleted from
intelligence information except in narrowly circumscribed
circumstances. The Attorney General's guidelines therefore provide
important privacy safeguards to U.S. citizens identified in information
disclosed to the intelligence community under the USA PATRIOT Act.
Section 905(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act requires federal law enforcement
agencies, pursuant to guidelines developed by the Attorney General, to
disclose expeditiously to the Director of Central Intelligence foreign
intelligence acquired in the course of a criminal investigation.
Federal
law enforcement agencies, both prior to and since the enactment of the
USA
PATRIOT Act, had already established mechanisms for the sharing of
foreign
intelligence acquired in the course of criminal investigations, and such
sharing with the intelligence community has occurred on a regular
basis. Today's guidelines formalize the procedures and mechanisms
already
established for the Department of Justice and other federal law
enforcement
agencies that may acquire foreign intelligence in the course of a
criminal
investigation.
The Attorney General also announced guidelines pursuant to section
905(b)
of the USA PATRIOT Act, which address the procedures by which the
Criminal
Division of the Justice Department notifies the Director of Central
Intelligence of its intent to commence or decline criminal investigation
of
possible criminal activity involving foreign intelligence sources or
potential foreign intelligence sources.
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