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Just allow me briefly to state what happened. nasa identified and researched a compliance issue. nasa -- excuse me, nsa reported that issue to doj, odni and ultimately the fisa court. the court delayed its consideration of the 2016 certifications on that basis until the government was able to correct the issue. nsa determined that a possible solution to the compliance problem was to stop conducting one specific type of upstream collection. so ultimately, we decided that the most effective way to...

Were now being carried by fiber optic cables often running through the united states. so to continue the same example, if in 2008 a foreign terrorist was communicating by using a u.s.-based e-mail service, a traditional fisa court order was required to compel a u.s.-based company to help with that collection. under traditional fisa, a court order can only be obtained on an individual basis by demonstrating to a federal judge that there is probable cause to believe that the target of the proposed...

That only foreign persons abroad are targeted for collection. thirdly, the statute requires minimization procedures protecting u.s. persons information that may be incidentally acquired while targeting foreign persons and finally, each year the fisa court reviews this entire package of material to make sure the governments program is consistent with both the statute and with the fourth amendment of the constitution. we have publicly released lightly redacted versions of all these documents inclu...

Congress enacted the amendments to the freedom act, the act that established the fisa, there have been no instances of intentional violations of section 702. with those points as a backdrop, now let me turn to a discussion of why it became necessary for congress to enact section 702. i do this so that the american public can hopefully, better understand the basis for this important law. the foreign intelligence and surveillance act was first passed in 1978. creating a way for the federal governm...

It also made him a top focus of the nsas counter terrorism efforts. nsa, along with its ic partners, spent over two years from 2014 to 2016 looking for haji iman. this search was ultimately successful primarily because of fisa section 702. indeed, based almost exclusively on intelligence activities under section 702, nsa collected a significant body of foreign intelligence about the activities of haji iman and his associates beginning with non-section 702 collection, nsa learned of an individual...

And finally, i will discuss oversight and compliance and how we are ensuring and continue to ensure the rights of u.s. citizens, rights that need to be protected. at the outset, i want to stress three things as a backdrop to everything else that my colleagues and i are presenting today. first, as i mentioned, collection 702 has produced and continues to produce intelligence that is vital to protect the nation against international terrorism and other threats. secondly, there are important legal ...

Fisas regime. that decision reflected the fact that people in the united states are protected by the fourth amendment while foreigners located abroad are not. congress accomplished this in large part by providing electronic surveillance with the technology of the time. in the 1970s overseas communication were predominantly carried by satellite. fisa as passed in 1978 did not require a court order for the collection of these overseas satellite communications. so, for example, if in 1980 nasa inte...