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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 · Sec. 108

Sec. 108. congressional oversight

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## Sec. 108 congressional oversight **[**[50 U.S.C. 1808](/us/usc/t50/s1808)**]** ###
(a)####
(1)On a semiannual basis the Attorney General shall fully inform the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate concerning all electronic surveillance under this title. Nothing in this title shall be deemed to limit the authority and responsibility of the appropriate committees of each House of Congress to obtain such information as they may need to carry out their respective functions and duties. ####
(2)Each report under the first sentence of paragraph
(1)shall include a description of— #####
(A)the total number of applications made for orders and extensions of orders approving electronic surveillance under this title where the nature and location of each facility or place at which the electronic surveillance will be directed is unknown; #####
(B)each criminal case in which information acquired under this Act has been authorized for use at trial during the period covered by such report; #####
(C)the total number of emergency employments of electronic surveillance under section 105(e) and the total number of subsequent orders approving or denying such electronic surveillance; and #####
(D)the total number of authorizations under section 105(f) and the total number of subsequent emergency employments of electronic surveillance under section 105(e) or emergency physical searches pursuant to section 301(e). ###
(b)On or before one year after the effective date of this Act and on the same day each year for four years thereafter, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence shall report respectively to the House of Representatives and the Senate, concerning the implementation of this Act. Said reports shall include but not be limited to an analysis and recommendations concerning whether this Act should be
(1)amended,
(2)repealed, or
(3)permitted to continue in effect without amendment.
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