§1808 Report of Attorney General to Congressional Committees; Limitation on Authority or Responsibility of Information Gathering Activities of Congressional Committees; Report of Congressional Committees to Congress

Summary

The Attorney General must, twice a year, fully tell four Congressional committees—the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary—about all electronic surveillance done under this chapter. Each report must say: how many applications were filed for surveillance orders or extensions when the exact facility or place to be watched was unknown; every criminal case in which information gained under this chapter was allowed at trial during the report period; how many emergency uses of electronic surveillance happened under section 1805(e) and how many later orders approved or denied them; and how many authorizations under section 1805(f) occurred and how many later emergency surveillances under 1805(e) or emergency physical searches under section 301(e) followed. The committees still have the power to get any other information they need. On or before one year after October 25, 1978, and on that same day each year for four years after, the House and Senate intelligence committees must report to their chambers on how this chapter is working. Those reports must analyze and recommend whether the chapter should be amended, repealed, or left as is.