Sentence examples for special warrant from inspiring English sources

Protected by a special warrant that gives him extraordinary powers to investigate wherever he likes, Chen soon discovers more than is good for him.

Two days later, F.B.I. agents in Minnesota asked Washington to obtain a special warrant to search his laptop computer, but the request was repeatedly resisted by F.B.I. headquarters.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, prohibits surveillance of this sort without a special warrant, so the administration has proffered several other justifications of its policy.

Rowley's letter was primarily a complaint about the refusal of F.B.I. headquarters, after Moussaoui's arrest, to endorse the Minneapolis office's request for a special warrant, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), to search his belongings.

In August, after Mr. Moussaoui's arrest, agents in the F.B.I.'s Minneapolis office asked the agency's headquarters to seek a special warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to search Mr. Moussaoui's computer and telephone records.

The letter said that bureau officials had stymied efforts to obtain a special warrant to search the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, a flight student arrested in Minneapolis in August 2001 who officials now assert was meant to be the 20th hijacker.

The agreement would reinforce the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was created in 1978 to issue special warrants for spying but was sidestepped by the administration.

CSIS would gain the power to apply for special warrants that would allow it to contravene Canada's charter of rights and freedoms.

The company has stayed ahead of insolvency by periodically selling shares and special warrants to investors, using the proceeds to pay lawyers and lobbyists to hobble the E.P.A. and keep the project alive.

We can't follow the people we want to follow,' and ask for special warrants?" "And if these are granted why aren't the politicians asking whether it is a good idea or not?" Last week the Washington Post alleged that the US National Security Agency had worked with British counterpart GCHQ to access the private data networks of Yahoo and Google.

This provision also lifted one of the last restrictions on special warrants for the FBI -- namely, that the information be related to international terrorism or foreign intelligence.