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Intro -- NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES. VOLUME 2 -- NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES. VOLUME 2 -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 A REVIEW OF THE FBI'S USE OF NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS: ASSESSMENT OF CORRECTIVE ACTIONS AND EXAMINATION OF NSL USAGE IN 2006 -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- I. Provisions of the Patriot Act and Patriot Reauthorization Act -- II. Methodology of the OIG Review -- III. Organization of the Report -- IV. Summary of OIG Findings -- 2. STATUS OF THE FBI'S AND DOJ'S CORRECTIVE ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO THE OIG'S FIRST NSL REPORT -- I. Overview of the FBI's and Department's Corrective Measures -- OIG Findings on the FBI's and Department's Corrective Actions -- II. Status of the FBI's Implementation of the OIG's Recommendations in Our First NSL Report -- Recommendation No. 1 -- Recommendation No. 2 -- Improve the FBI OGC NSL tracking database to ensure that it captures timely, complete, and accurate data on NSLs and NSL requests. -- Recommendation No. 3 -- Recommendation No. 4 -- Recommendation No. 5 -- Consider seeking legislative amendment to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to define the phrase "telephone toll billing records information." -- Recommendation No. 6 -- Consider measures that would enable FBI agents and analysts to (a) label or tag their use of information derived from national security letters in analytical intelligence products and (b) identify when and how often information derived from NSLs is provided to law enforcement authorities for use in criminal proceedings. -- Recommendation No. 7 -- Take steps to ensure that the FBI does not improperly issue exigent letters. -- Recommendation No. 8 -- Take steps to ensure that, where appropriate, the FBI makes requests for information in accordance with the requirements of national security letter authorities

The National Security Council has several functions in the foreign policy formulation process. NSC is responsible for coordinating interagency policy efforts to assure coherent policy proposals and implementation; for generating policy proposals of its own; and for coordinating policy research projects. NSC also makes sure that proposals mesh with existing U.S. policy. In discharging its responsibilities the NSC staff works closely with officials of the Department of State and other government agencies. Two NSC staff members are concerned with Africa. One covers all countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the other is responsible for the Horn of Africa. These two staff members work closely together on policy questions concerning Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

The National Security Council has several functions in the foreign policy formulation process. NSC is responsible for coordinating interagency policy efforts to assure coherent policy proposals and implementation; for generating policy proposals of its own; and for coordinating policy research projects. NSC also makes sure that proposals mesh with existing U.S. policy. In discharging its responsibilities the NSC staff works closely with officials of the Department of State and other government agencies. Two NSC staff members are concerned with Africa. One covers all countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the other is responsible for the Horn of Africa. These two staff members work closely together on policy questions concerning Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Author -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Roadmap to a Hidden World -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- 1: National Security Intelligence -- The importance of national security intelligence -- Mysteries and secrets -- Central themes -- The intelligence missions -- The challenge of intelligence accountability -- This book's purpose -- The multiple dimensions of national security intelligence -- A holistic view of national security intelligence -- Intelligence as a cluster of organizations: the American experience -- Military intelligence agencies -- A flawed plan for U.S. intelligence -- Redesigning the leadership of American intelligence -- A revolving door at the office of the DNI -- A dream still on hold -- Notes -- 2: Intelligence Collection and Analysis -- The intelligence cycle -- Intelligence collection and the "Ints" -- The ongoing quest for better collection and analysis -- Notes -- 3: Covert Action -- Covert action as an intelligence mission -- The implementation of covert action -- The methods of covert action -- The ebb and flow of covert action -- A ladder of escalation for covert action -- Evaluating covert action -- Guidelines for covert action -- Notes -- 4: Counterintelligence -- The proper focus of counterintelligence as an intelligence mission -- The motivations for treason -- Catching spies -- CI tradecraft: security and counterespionage -- Secrecy and the state -- Counterintelligence and accountability -- Notes -- 5: Safeguards against the Abuse of Secret Power -- The evolution of safeguards against intelligence abuse in the United States -- A shock theory of intelligence accountability -- Key issues of intelligence accountability -- The roles played by lawmakers as intelligence supervisors

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