According to Roll Call, Issa disclosed a letter detailing wiretap application information.
This diary helps you find the original letter in the Congressional Record, where details of wiretap applications are included.
Update: Here is a link to a download of the Congressional record file: Here [Docstoc, external link, PDF]; and a copy of the document with a comments here [Breitbart, external link, comments].
We compared Issa's letters with technical interception tools available to law enforcement, including DOJ and NYPD.
We conclude this diary with an assessment of (a) the Issa-provided disclosures within the Congressional Record, and (b) technical capabilities of vendor-supplied technical interception tools, likely used by NYPD in the domestic surveillance programs, covered by the AP.
According to Roll Call, Issa disclosed wiretap application details in the Congressional Record, in the form of a letter to Cummings.
The mention of the letter is significant in that it discloses details of wiretap applications. We do not know whether the wiretaps used electronic interception systems such as Redwolf or Red Hawk.
DoJ denied (in some cases) NYPD requests for FISA applications. It is unclear whether the contractor interception tools would have blocked NYPD from conducting surveillance on targets which the AG denied a warrant request.
Roll Call doesn't provide a copy of the letter, nor a link to the Congressional Record.
Some information about the letter in the Roll Call article is a quotation from the letter:
“The wiretap affidavit details that agents were well aware that large sums of money were being used to purchase a large number of firearms, many of which were flowing across the border,” the letter says.
Roll Call: By Jonathan Strong, Roll Call Staff; June 29, 2012, 12:06 p.m
That quote matches text from the Congressional Record, a letter which starts on page 233 of 242 in your Adobe Reader.
Issa's salutation, from the letter, contained in the Congressional Record:
Copy of Issa Letter in Congressional Record
Mr. ISSA. I thank the Speaker.
I submit the following:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND GOVERNMENT REFORM,
Washington, DC, May 24, 2012.
Hon. ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS,
Ranking Member
H4409: Congressional Record, House Middle Column, Adobe
Analysis
We do not know how the electronic interception methods relate to the following interception tools: Red Wolf, Red Hook, or Carnivore.
Although the interception tools were under DOJ contract, some of the contractors have commercial sales programs which market the analyst tools to local law enforcement, presumably including NYPD.
At issue is whether the domestic law enforcement collection and interception tools have archiving features which would permit investigation by outside prosecutors: Whether evidence related to unlawful investigations was properly recorded; or whether there had been subsequent destruction of evidence of interest to a war crimes prosecutor.
Based on our review of the contractor's public disclosures related to these interception systems, and a review of the Issa disclosures within the Congressional Record, we do not (yet) have specific information related to the NYPD-CIA domestic surveillance tools.
Conclusion
The link to the Congressional Record for Issa's letter to Cummings, dated May 24, 2012, is: here [Congressional Record].
We believe subsequent disclosures about the Fast and Furious wiretap applications, the procedures, and file formats may shed some light on the procedures DOJ used to review NYPD electronic surveillance warrant requests.
It remains a matter of public interest to what extent "Fast and Furious"-related documents shed light on (a) the NYPD-CIA domestic surveillance activities; and adequacy of Congressional oversight re alleged breaches of Geneva by NYPD officers while formerly assigned to US military combat units.