Report on the President's Surveillance Program
Document Date:
July 10, 2009
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Reports to Congress
Legal Authority:
FISA Amendments Act
Records Collected:
Telephony Metadata
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This document is an Office of the Inspector General report on surveillance programs authorized by President Bush after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The report finds that Bush authorized the NSA to collect domestic phone records, an authorization that wasn't legally permissable under the Foreign Amendment Surveillance Act. It further details the legal issues of various NSA Surveillance programs.