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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will, in its current form, come up for reauthorization in 2017. Broadly speaking, the Section 702 program targets non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States, in order to acquire foreign intelligence. Over the past several years, this surveillance of the online activities of foreigners has been a critical and invaluable tool for American intelligence professionals and officials. Knowledgeable officia...

Samaritans and their institutions. just like youre talking about with these wiretaps or allegations of wiretaps, collateral collection, all of that feeds into this narrative that you cant trust the government even when we have no evidence to believe either way. >> how are they doing this? social media, right? >> right. you take the stories that you see, anything that makes chaos. they could be political, they could be something about capital markets failing. it could be protest or even clamty, t...

Director said theres an investigation into russian involvement in democratic process. then to go to the white house, unfortunately just shreds the credibility that were going to have, and ability to have an independent bipartisan investigation. weve got to try to piece this together. it begins tomorrow with the chairman talking to us and explaining what took place today. >> can you explain to our layaudience what the notion of collateral collection is, that is, how can it be that donald trump or...

>> can you explain to our layaudience what the notion of collateral collection is, that is, how can it be that donald trump or associates of his could have had their names, conversations, mentions, included in some other ongoing legal investigation? >> yeah, i only want to speak about it in a general sense. >> right. >> but theres an example would be something we call 702 collection. this is when we are listening in, the community is, from a one foreigner in another land talking to another forei...