Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General
Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program (2009)
Report · written 10 July 2009 · released 10 July 2009
Why this matters
A joint report by the Inspectors General of DOJ, DoD, CIA, NSA and ODNI on the warrantless surveillance program authorized after 9/11, including the 2004 hospital-room confrontation over its legality. It questions how much the program contributed to counterterrorism. A key unclassified window into 'Stellar Wind' four years before Snowden.
Read the original
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/s0907.pdf
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Tags
Part of a collection · step 7 of 9
Cold War Signals Intelligence
The capability turned inward after 9/11.
Part of a collection · step 8 of 12
Watching the Watchers
2009: five inspectors general on Stellar Wind.
Cite
Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General. "Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program (2009)." 10 July 2009. Released 10 July 2009. https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/s0907.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0069).
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