unconsenting United States persons consistent with 
the need of the United States to obtain, produce, 
and disseminate foreign intelligence information; 
(2) procedures that provide for the destruction 
of information relating to United States persons that 
do not reflect activity that would lead a reasonable 
agent or analyst to believe that the person is an 
agent of a foreign power as defined in 50 U.S.C. 
1801(b); 
(3) procedures for identifying whether the infor-
mation returned in response to a national security 
letter exceeds the scope of the original request and 
further procedures for returning or destroying the 
superfluous information as soon as possible and be-
fore it is entered into any database or used in any 
way; and 
(4) deadlines for destruction, minimization, or 
return of information described in paragraphs (1) 
through (3), that require such destruction, mini-
mization, or return as soon as possible. 
(b) DISPOSAL OF WRONGLY ACQUIRED INFORMA-
TION.—Each authority of the Government shall have the 
duty to dispose of all private information obtained without 
legal authority under color of a national security letter. 
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(c) REPORT.—The Attorney General shall, semiannu-
ally, submit to the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House 
of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intel-
ligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
a unclassified report containing— 
(1) the total number of national security letters 
issued during the preceding six months, in unclassi-
fied form; 
(2) for each of the laws authorizing national se-
curity letters, the total number of national security 
letters issued during the preceding six months under 
the authority of that law; 
(3) for each of the laws authorizing national se-
curity letters, the total number of national security 
letters issued during the preceding six months under 
the authority of that law for United States persons; 
(4) for each of the laws authorizing national se-
curity letters, the total number of national security 
letters issued during the preceding six months under 
the authority of each such subparagraph for non- 
United States persons; 
(5) a description of the minimization procedures 
adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to sub-
section (c), including any changes to minimization 
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procedures previously adopted by the Attorney Gen-
eral; 
(6) a summary of the challenges made by re-
cipients of national security letters in court; 
(7) a description of the extent to which infor-
mation obtained with national security letters has 
aided investigations and an explanation of how such 
information has aided such investigations; and 
(8) a description of the extent to which infor-
mation obtained with national security letters has 
aided prosecutions and an explanation of how such 
information has been used in or aided such prosecu-
tions. 
SEC. 7. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO CLAIMS OF EMER-
GENCY IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN NA-
TIONAL SECURITY LETTERS. 
Section 2702 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), so that paragraph (8) 
reads as follows: 
‘‘(8) to a governmental entity, if the provider 
reasonably believes that an emergency involving im-
mediate danger of death or serious physical injury to 
any person justifies disclosure of the information;’’; 
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(2) in subsection (c), so that paragraph (4) 
reads as follows: 
‘‘(4) to a governmental entity if the provider 
has a reasonable belief that an emergency involving 
the imminent danger of death or serious physical in-
jury to any person requires disclosure without delay 
of information relating to the emergency;’’; and 
(3) so that subsection (d) reads as follows: 
‘‘(d) REPORTING OF EMERGENCY DISCLOSURES.— 
On a semiannual basis the Attorney General shall submit 
to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate a report containing— 
‘‘(1) the number of accounts from which the 
Department of Justice has received voluntary disclo-
sures under subsection (b)(8), and a summary of the 
factual basis for each emergency disclosure; and 
‘‘(2) the number and type of communications 
the Department of Justice has received by voluntary 
disclosure under subsection (c) (4) , and a summary 
of the factual basis for each emergency disclosure.’’. 
Æ 
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