The surveillance orders authorizing the government to spy on terrorism targets are good for a year.
Courts do not issue orders authorizing someone to search themselves, since obviously no such order is needed.
The affidavits, which are used by prosecutors to persuade judges to sign orders authorizing wiretaps and searches, contain details of the investigation and excerpts from conversations recorded pursuant to earlier eavesdropping orders.
The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia.
The first such provision allows investigators to get "roving wiretap" court orders authorizing them to follow a target who switches phone numbers or phone companies, rather than having to apply for a new warrant each time.
While the spy agencies had had a fraught relationship since the beginning of the Afghan war, the first major breach came in July 2008, when C.I.A. officers in Islamabad paid a visit to Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistani Army chief, to tell him that President Bush had signed off on a set of secret orders authorizing a new strategy in the drone wars.
The auction lot, estimated at $8,000 to $10,000, contains government orders authorizing Mrs. Lincoln's institutionalization, a doctor's letter expressing "grave apprehensions" about her condition, an admissions book listing her as patient No. 208, and a poorly spelled fan letter advising her to escape and "speak out planely".
On Friday, President Vladimir Putin signed the law lifting restrictions on foreign ownership of the world's largest gas company, and on Wednesday, the official orders authorizing the end to the restrictions are expected to be issued.
On 26 September, the ship finally received orders authorizing attacks on Allied merchant shipping.
Orders authorizing the use of a pen register are initially sealed to prevent tipping off the subject of the investigation that their communications are being monitored.
