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Letter Memo from Deputy Asst. Attorney General John C. Yoo to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Re: Authority for Warrantless National Security Searches

Document Date: May 17, 2002
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Agencies: DOJ, Government
Document Type: Letter

Letter from the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, John C. Yoo, to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly about the President's power to deploy warrantless expanded electronic surveillance techniques in response to the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

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