Sec. 6. Restrictions on querying the contents of certain communications
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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881a ) is amended by adding at the end the following: A query of the contents of communications acquired under this section with a selector known to be used by a United States person may be conducted by personnel of elements of the Intelligence Community only if the purpose of the query is to obtain foreign intelligence information or information necessary to understand foreign intelligence information or to assess its importance. For any query performed pursuant to paragraph
(1)a record shall be retained of the identity of the Government personnel who performed the query, the date and time of the query, and the information indicating that the purpose of the query was to obtain foreign intelligence information or information necessary to understand foreign intelligence information or to assess its importance. Each record prepared pursuant to subparagraph
(A)shall be made available to the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, appropriate Inspectors General, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and the appropriate committees of Congress. Nothing in this subsection may be construed— to prohibit access to data collected under this section as may be necessary for technical assurance, data management or compliance purposes, or for the purpose of narrowing the results of queries, in which case no information produced pursuant to the order may be accessed, used, or disclosed other than for such purposes; to limit the authority of a law enforcement agency to conduct a query for law enforcement purposes of the contents of communications acquired under this section; or to limit the authority of an agency to conduct a query for the purpose of preventing a threat to life or serious bodily harm to any person. In this subsection: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. . The term content , with respect to a communication— means any information concerning the substance, purport, or meaning of that communication; and does not include any dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information. The term selector means an identifier, such as a phone number or electronic account identifier, that is associated with a particular communicant or facility. .
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