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THE ESSENTIALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL JUSTICE
THE QUESTION OF PUBLIC CONGRESSIONAL SELECT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HEARINGS
RUSSIA IN THE USA : AS SEEN VIA 8613 STATION : PINTEREST
"It was also in 2013 that Russian military writers began writing about “new generation warfare” and the Chief of the General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, called for “rethinking on the forms and methods of warfare.” Russia’s proxy war with Ukraine over the last year has moved its evolving operational concepts out of the realm of theory into a brutal practice. As practiced in Ukraine, Russia’s new generation warfare is manifested in five component elements: political subversion, proxy sanctuary, intervention, coercive deterrence and negotiated manipulation. 
Russia’s new generation warfare differs from Western views of hybrid warfare — a blend of conventional, irregular and cyber warfare — in that it combines both low-end hidden state involvement with high-end direct, even braggadocio, superpower involvement. Contrary to Western politicians, the Russian leadership understands military options and plays them like a Stradivarius" : BY PHILLIP A. KARBER, PH.D. : NGA.mil 6/4/2015
HOUSE RULES : INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
RULES : PRIVILEGE : INTEGRITY : REPUTATION : MEMBERS
CHALLENGING THE CHAIR
RULE IX QUESTIONS OF PRIVILEGE 1. Questions of privilege shall be, first, those affecting the rights of the House collectively, its safety, dignity, and the integrity of its proceedings; and second, those affecting the rights, reputation, and conduct of Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, individually, in their representative capacity only. 2. (a)(1) A resolution reported as a question of the privileges of the House, or offered from the floor by the Majority Leader or the Minority Leader as a question of the privileges of the House, or offered as privileged under clause 1, section 7, article I of the Constitution, shall have precedence of all other questions except motions to adjourn. A resolution offered from the floor by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner other than the Majority Leader or the Minority Leader as a question of the privileges of the House shall have precedence of all other questions except motions to adjourn only at a time or place, designated by the Speaker, in the legislative schedule within two legislative days after the day on which the proponent announces to the House an intention to offer the resolution and the form of the resolution. Oral announcement of the form of the resolution may be dispensed with by unanimous consent. 
PERCEIVED CONFLICT OF INTEREST

A member of the Congressional Permanent Select Intelligence Committee may rise to challenge the Chair; therein, moving that the Chair has exceeded his authority by providing a person (the President) with privileged information in absence of agreement to so do from the committee membership; and, consequently, include in the matter of privilege to move the matter of the investigation of the question of alleged Russian influence upon the 2016 U.S. election from the Intelligence Committee to a non-partisan, non-biased independent investigation.
 
JOINT UNCLASSIFIED STATEMENT OF BRADLEY BROOKER ACTING GENERAL COUNSEL OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE STUART J. EVANS DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR INTELLIGENCE NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GRANT MENDENHALL ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM NATIONAL SECURITY BRANCH FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION PAUL MORRIS DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL FOR OPERATIONS NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY AND STEPHEN VANECH DEPUTY CHIEF OFFICE OF COUNTERTERRORISM NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AT A HEARING ENTITLED “SECTION 702 OF THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT”
PRESENTED MARCH 1, 2017
"FISC may issue a traditional FISA order, the statute requires a finding of probable cause that the target is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power and that the target is using or about to use the targeted facility, such as a telephone number or e-mail account. The Attorney General, and subsequently the FISC, must approve each individual application. The Constitution does not require this practice, and it proved to be extraordinarily burdensome to require individual court orders for intelligence collection aimed at non-U.S. persons abroad. We know of no other countries that require court orders to authorize intelligence activities targeting foreigners outside their countries. (U) In 2008, Congress addressed this issue by enacting the FAA, within which Section 702 authorizes the Government to target, with the assistance of providers in the United States, communications of non-U.S. persons located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information. At the same time, Section 702 provides a comprehensive regime of oversight by all three branches of Government to protect the constitutional and privacy interests of Americans. (U) Under Section 702, instead of issuing individual orders, the FISC approves annual certifications submitted by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) that specify categories of foreign intelligence that the Government is authorized to acquire pursuant to Section 702. Section 702 contains a number of statutory protections regarding these certifications to ensure that the resulting targeting is properly aimed at non-U.S. persons located outside the United States who are assessed to possess, expected to receive, or are likely to communicate foreign intelligence information that falls within one of those categories. First, the Attorney General and the DNI must certify that a significant purpose of an acquisition is to obtain foreign intelligence information. Second, an acquisition may only intentionally target non-U.S. persons. Third, the Government may not intentionally target any person known at the time of the acquisition to be in the United States. Fourth, the Government may not target someone outside the United States for the purpose of targeting a particular, known person in this country. Fifth, Section 702 protects domestic communications by prohibiting the intentional acquisition of “any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition” to be in the United States. Finally, of course, any acquisition must be consistent with the Fourth Amendment. The certifications are the legal basis for targeting specific non-U.S. persons outside the United States and, based on the certifications, the Attorney General and the DNI can direct communications service providers in this country to assist in collection directed against the Government’s authorized Section 702 targets. (U) To ensure compliance with these provisions, Section 702 requires targeting procedures, minimization procedures, and acquisition guidelines. The targeting procedures are designed to ensure that the Government targets non-U.S. persons outside the United States, and also that it does not intentionally acquire domestic communications. Moreover, the targeting procedures ensure that targeting of foreign persons is not indiscriminate, but instead targeted at non-U.S. persons outside the United States who are assessed to possess, expected to receive, or are likely to communicate foreign intelligence information. Because Congress understood when it passed the FAA that a targeted non-U.S. person may communicate with, or discuss information concerning, a U.S. person, Congress also required that all collection be governed by minimization procedures that restrict how the Intelligence Community treats any U.S. persons UNCLASSIFIED – 4 – UNCLASSIFIED whose communications or information might be incidentally collected and regulate the handling of any nonpublic information concerning U.S. persons that is acquired. As further described below, a number of these controls also protect the privacy of non-U.S. persons as a matter of either practice or through additional policy restrictions imposed since Section 702 was enacted (such as restrictions contained in Presidential Policy Directive No. 28). Finally, the acquisition guidelines seek to ensure compliance with all of the limitations of Section 702 described above, and to ensure that the Government files a traditional FISA application when required. (U) By approving the certifications submitted by the Attorney General and the DNI, as well as the targeting and minimization procedures, the FISC plays a major role in ensuring that acquisitions under Section 702 are conducted in a lawful manner. The FISC carefully reviews the targeting and minimization procedures for compliance with the requirements of both the statute and the Fourth Amendment. The FISC does not, however, confine its review to these documents. As described below, the FISC receives extensive reporting from the Government regarding the operation of, and any compliance incidents involved in, the Section 702 program. When it deems appropriate, the FISC also requires the Government to provide additional descriptive filings and provide testimony at hearings to ensure that the court has a full understanding of the operation of the program. The FISC considers these findings regarding the operation of the program and the Government’s compliance annually when it evaluates whether a proposed certification meets all statutory and Constitutional requirements."
"Royal Air Force Menwith Hill or more simply RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United States. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site[1]and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world.[2]
RAF Menwith Hill is commanded by an RAF officer, with support services provided by Government Communications HeadquartersUnited States Air Force, 421st Air Base Group, and US National Security Agency personnel.[citation needed] In 2014, the number of American personnel stationed at Menwith Hill was reduced as part of a streamlining of operations due to improvements in computer and information technology.[3]
The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office,[4] on behalf of the US National Security Agency, with antennae contained in a large number of highly distinctive white radomes, and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system.[5]"wikipedia ... The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the "big five" U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.  It designs, builds, and operates the Reconnaissance satellites of the United States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]   The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO's federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and "virtually no federal workforce", accomplishing most of its work through "tens of thousands" of defense contractor personnel.[7] wikipedia
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