United States v. Andrew Duggan, Eamon Meehan, Gabriel Megahey, and Colm Meehan, Defendants

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• holding that the public authority defense requires reliance by defendant upon actual authority from an adequately empowered government official to commission the illegal act
• stating that, in enacting FISA, “Congress recognized that in many cases the concerns of the government with respect to foreign intelligence will overlap those with respect to law enforcement”
• concluding FISA requirements “provide an appropriate balance between the individual’s interest in privacy and the government’s need to obtain foreign intelligence information, and that FISA does not violate the probable cause requirement of the Fourth Amendment.”
• reading Keith to recognize that “the governmental interests presented in national security investiga- tions differ substantially from those presented in traditional criminal investigations”
• rejecting ______ such a defense in a prosecution under 22 U.S.C. 2778
• declining to adopt apparent authority from Barker and instead requiring actual authority

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