Iran
Title | Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony H. Cordesman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2014-02-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442227788 |
This report analyzes four key aspects of US and Iranian strategic competition--sanctions, energy, arms control, and regime change. Its primary focus is on the ways in which the sanctions applied to Iran have changed US and Iranian competition since the fall of 2011. This escalation has been spurred by the creation of a series of far stronger US unilateral sanctions and the European Union’s imposition of equally strong sanctions, both of which affect Iran’s ability to export, its financial system, and its overall economy.
Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted Under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Title | Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted Under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court PDF eBook |
Author | Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Pub |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781495319228 |
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is an independent bipartisan agency within the executive branch established by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. The Board is comprised of four part-time members and a full-time chairman, all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. On June 5, 2013, the British newspaper The Guardian published the first of a series of articles based on unauthorized disclosures of classified documents by Edward Snowden, a contractor for the National Security Agency ("NSA"). The article described an NSA program to collect millions of telephone records, including records about purely domestic calls. Over the course of the next several days, there were additional articles regarding this program as well as another NSA program referred to in leaked documents as "PRISM." These disclosures caused a great deal of concern both over the extent to which they damaged national security and over the nature and scope of the surveillance programs they purported to reveal. In response to the congressional and presidential requests, the Board immediately initiated a study of the 215 and 702 programs and the operation of the FISA court. This Report contains the results of the Board's 215 program study as well as our analysis and recommendations regarding the FISC's operation.
Annual Activity Report of the Committee on Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives for the Period ...
Title | Annual Activity Report of the Committee on Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives for the Period ... PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2014 |
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The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law
Title | The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law PDF eBook |
Author | David Gray |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2017-09-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781107137943 |
Surveillance presents a conundrum: how to ensure safety, stability, and efficiency while respecting privacy and individual liberty. From police officers to corporations to intelligence agencies, surveillance law is tasked with striking this difficult and delicate balance. That challenge is compounded by ever-changing technologies and evolving social norms. Following the revelations of Edward Snowden and a host of private-sector controversies, there is intense interest among policymakers, business leaders, attorneys, academics, students, and the public regarding legal, technological, and policy issues relating to surveillance. This handbook documents and organizes these conversations, bringing together some of the most thoughtful and impactful contributors to contemporary surveillance debates, policies, and practices. Its pages explore surveillance techniques and technologies; their value for law enforcement, national security, and private enterprise; their impacts on citizens and communities; and the many ways societies do-and should-regulate surveillance.
Constitution Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the U. S. (House Rules and Manual)
Title | Constitution Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the U. S. (House Rules and Manual) PDF eBook |
Author | House of Representatives |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 1514 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780160939570 |
The House Rules and Manual contains the fundamental source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives: the Constitution of the United States; applicable provisions of Jefferson's Manual; Rules of the House (as of the date of this preface); provisions of law and resolutions having the force of Rules of the House; and pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other procedural authority used in the House of Representatives. The rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress were adopted on January 3, 2017, when the House agreed to House Resolution 5. In addition to a series of changes to various standing rules, House Resolution 5 included separate free-standing orders constituting procedures to be followed in the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Explanations of the changes to the standing rules appear in the annotations following each rule in the text of this Manual.
Annual Report on the Activity of the Committee on Small Business
Title | Annual Report on the Activity of the Committee on Small Business PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Small business |
ISBN |
Legislative Review and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Title | Legislative Review and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | United States |
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