Anonymous ID: 32969c Nov. 15, 2018, 10:56 p.m. No.3923617   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3700 >>3732 >>3899 >>3988 >>4015

The "Standing Order" documents from the US District Court for DC which have been discussed seem to be a normal biannual public disclosure of surveillance activities. It is not possible to tell if some of applications relate to Q concerns or will go on to be prosecuted.

It is clear that the cases listed in the document are not prosecutions or indictments, but applications for surveillance which require their own case or docket number.

 

Memorandum of Understanding between the Clerk of the Court and the US Attorney's Office, referenced in the diclosure filings:

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/MOU_edited_052118.pdf

This memorandum gives procedures for handling electronic applications for phone, email, and other communication surveillance.

States that public disclosure of parts of the applications will be given twice a year, on March 31 and September 30.

 

The document of current interest, filed Oct 16. Its 49 pages long. It lists over 100 surveillance applications:

https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/Standing_Order_Attachment_101718.pdf

Below is the previous disclosure filing from April.

A big difference between the two is that the April filing gave many different suspected crimes for which the applications were made, see below.

 

The October filing gave only one reason for surveillance:

18 U.S. Code 3512 - Foreign requests for assistance in criminal investigations and prosecutions

 

The previous public disclosure list of surveillance applications filed in April (47 pages):

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/18mc61.pdf

Some reasons given for the applications for surveillance in the April disclosure:

 

21 U.S. Code section 841 a 1 (a large number of cases) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance;

18 U.S. Code section 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television

18 U.S. Code section 1349 - Attempt and conspiracy (mail and other fraud)

18 U.S. Code section 545 - Smuggling goods into the United States

18 U.S. Code section 1956 - Laundering of monetary instruments

18 U.S. Code section 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses

18 U.S. Code 2339B - Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations

18 U.S. Code 1341 - Frauds and swindles

18 U.S. Code 641 - Public money, property or records (embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, government property)

18 U.S. Code 1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers

50 U.S. Code 1701 Unusual and extraordinary threat; declaration of national emergency; exercise of Presidential authorities

50 U.S. Code 1702 Presidential authorities

allows the President to "investigate, regulate, or prohibit" a wide range of economic activity with the country

 

These last two, 50 U.S. Code 1701 and 1702 would include President Trump's Human Rights Abuses and Corruption executive order.

BUT that was enacted Dec 20, 2017 and the cases listed were opened and closed before then.

 

The list of entities sanctioned by executive orders under 50 U.S. Code 1701 and 1702 is huge, and no telling which was suspected of being violated in any given surveillance application:

 

Belarus, Ex. Ord. No. 13405

Burundi, 13712

Central African Republic, 13667

Colombia, 13286

Countries and Persons Committing or Supporting Terrorism, 12947, 13224

Countries and Persons Proliferating Weapons of Mass Destruction, 12938

Countries and Persons Threatening United States Export Regulation Upon Expiration of the Export Administration Act of 1979, 13222

Democratic Republic of the Congo, 13413

Iran, 12170, 12957

Iraq, 13303

Lebanon, 13441

Libya, 12543

North Korea, 13466

Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities, 13694

Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption, 13818

Somalia, 13536

South Sudan, 13664

Sudan, 13067

Syria, 13338

Transnational Criminal Organizations, 13581

Ukraine, 13660

Venezuela, 13692

Western Balkans, 13219

Yemen, 13611

Zimbabwe, 13288

 

link to the national emergencies section:

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:50%20section:1701%20edition:prelim)