When the CIA was established under the National Security Act of 1947, it was designed strictly as an intelligence agency, without police or military powers.
In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.
But I think it is entirely reasonable to have a process, like that conducted by CFIUS under the Foreign Investment and National Security Act, to vet transactions to ensure that those presenting risks to national security are brought to the attention of the president, who can then exercise his discretion to block them.
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R. 7 the National Security Revitalization Act promised by the Contract With America.
Called the National Energy Security Act of 2001, its stated goal is to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil to 50 percent by the year 2010.
Specifically, the National Security Revitalization Act would establish the policy of the U.S. government to be to provide at the earliest practical moment a highly effective anti-missile defense for the American people, their forces overseas and their allies.
When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
The delicate balancing act between national security and civil liberties may be tipping irreversibly in the wrong direction.
Specifically, the petition asks Skype to spell out its compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and National Security Letters, both of which can require the handover of private user data to government agencies.
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Participating in separate strategy sessions on the Patriot Act and related national security issues with President George W. Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.
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Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the Executive Branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States' first peacetime intelligence agency.
Right now he has the authority that Congress provided under the National Defense Authorization Act to start transferring the men who have been cleared using a national security waiver.
He said that would ensure that the aircraft did not compromise national security, and complied with the Buy American Act.
The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the purpose of National Security Letters (NSL) to allow government agencies to use them to request any data relevant to an investigation of terrorism or an intelligence activity without court oversight.
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When the National School Lunch Act was first passed in 1946, it was seen as a matter of national security.
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The letter addresses the adverse national security effects that would be associated with allowing the Patriot Act's "sunsetted" provisions to lapse.
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National Security Minister Peter Bunting told reporters that the law reform act will result in a "vastly accelerated number of successful prosecutions" of swindlers who have made the island a center for cross-border telemarketing fraud.
For the sake of our national and economic security, I urge the Senate to pass the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 and Congress to send me comprehensive legislation so I can sign it into law.
Each member must act on values, conscience, sense of history and national security.
Majority Whip Tom DeLay and Rep. Jim Saxton, an influential member of the House National Security Committee, have joined him in sponsoring the Middle East Peace Compliance Act.
Some Syrian activists and opposition members from the Syrian National Council urged the international community to act outside the mandate of the Security Council by imposing a no-fly zone over some parts of Syria now in control of rebels.
National security letters date back to the 1980s and were strengthened under the USA Patriot Act, the counterterrorism law put into place after Sept. 11.
Copies of this correspondence will be provided to the Department of Justice's Counterespionage Section in the National Security Division, which is responsible for enforcing FARA and prosecuting violations of that act.
The Defense Transformation Act is neither a panacea nor is it incapable of improvement by national security-minded professionals.
Failure to approve the Senate's Cybersecurity Act of 2012 would amount to a rejection of the advice from senior national security officials, including Gen.
It's called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. It established a special secret court to approve national security warrants, and in the years since that court has approved 19, 000 of them and rejected just five.
Goaded on by New York Times columnist William Safire, the advocates presented the program as the diabolical plan of John Poindexter, the former Reagan national security adviser and director of Pentagon research, to spy on "every public and private act of every American" -- in Mr. Safire's words.
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