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Assistant Attorney General Beth A. Williams Announces Departure from the Office of Legal Policy
Assistant Attorney General Beth A. Williams of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy (OLP) announced her departure from the department, effective today.
“Beth has served the Department of Justice with distinction,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “Beth led the judicial nomination process for the department, resulting in the confirmation of hundreds of principled jurists who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law. Beth also helped shape the terms of national debate on a range of legal policy questions of significant priority to the department and the administration, including advocating against unlawful nationwide injunctions, protecting religious liberty, improving our regulatory process, and combating human trafficking. I am deeply appreciative of Beth’s service to the department and our country.”
“It has been the honor of my career to serve as Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Policy,” said Assistant Attorney General Williams. “For three and a half years, I have had the privilege of working to make our country safer and more secure, and to preserve and protect our most fundamental freedoms. I have been grateful to work alongside the talented public servants at the department who dedicate their careers to this mission.”
Since 2017, OLP has assisted President Trump in appointing 229 Article III judges to the bench — more than any president has appointed in a single term since 1980. The president’s nominees to date include three Supreme Court justices, 53 Circuit Court judges, 170 District Court judges, three Court of International Trade judges, and numerous judges to other federal courts.
Under Assistant Attorney General Williams’s leadership, OLP has also led the department in taking significant steps to make the regulatory process more lawful, accountable, and transparent. The department recently issued two new regulations establishing a process for the responsible review, clearance, and issuance of guidance documents. The rules officially prohibit the use of guidance documents as an end-run to lawful regulation. OLP also played an instrumental role in the department’s landmark report to Congress issuing a formal recommendation that Congress modernize the 74-year-old Administrative Procedure Act.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/assistant-attorney-general-beth-williams-announces-departure-office-legal-policy
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Patriot Act Used By The FBI To Collect Internet Browsing Data, Contradicting Claims Made To Oversight
The NSA shut down its bulk phone records collection authorized under Section 215 after it became apparent it wasn't worth the effort. Reforms put in place by the USA Freedom Act prevented the agency from collecting it all and sorting it out later. Instead, it had to approach telcos with actual targeted requests and only haul away responsive records. The NSA somehow still managed to overcollect records, putting it in violation of the law. The NSA hinted the program had outlived its usefulness anyway, suggesting it had far better collections available under other authorities that it would rather not subject to greater scrutiny.
But this didn't end the government's bulk records collections. It just ended the phone metadata program. The NSA still collects other records in bulk, including banking records and, oddly, books checked out by library patrons. The broad authority of Section 215 could be read to allow the government collect other records, like email metadata and internet activity. Reasoning that people voluntarily create records of their internet use by using third-party services to surf the web, the government hinted it could sweep these up just as easily as it had swept up call records.
The government's attempt to collect internet history under this authority ran into some friction earlier this year when the Senate voted to block this collection. Senator Ron Wyden directly asked the director of national intelligence (DNI) to inform the Senate whether or not agencies under its purview had gathered internet use records under this authority. He received this answer.
In a Nov. 6 letter to Mr. Wyden, John Ratcliffe, the intelligence director, wrote that Section 215 was not used to gather internet search terms, and that none of the 61 orders issued last year under that law by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court involved collection of “web browsing” records.
Is The FBI Now An Arm Of The Democratic Party?
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/is-the-fbi-now-an-arm-of-the-democratic-party/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201205/08544645823/patriot-act-used-fbi-to-collect-internet-browsing-data-contradicting-claims-made-to-oversight.shtml
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