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Intelligence collection tools, the fisa tools. it doesnt make any sense. you have divisions inside congress and its all up to the white house. they want to push this ajaengag. at the same point they want to keep the conspiracy going in the news. well end up having a weakened federal law enforcement agency that cant use these tools when they need it. can you imagine being an fbi agent using a fisa warrant or wiretap in a corruption case knowing years from now a politician on the hill may pick out...

Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, admiral mike rogers and acting director of the federal bureau of investigation, andrew mccabe. i appreciate you coming today to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. title 7 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act, fisa is set to expire on december 31st, 2017. it includes several foreign collection tools wib including one known as section 702. section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are ...

That were using for this pressure cooker bomb? >> well, you can use it. under the wmb statute, a bomb of that can be considered a wmb. >> i did not know that. >> theres your terrorism charge, potentially. so, i personally believe terrorism is a form of criminali criminality, should be treated as so. thats not to say there are other tools in the toolbox that should be discounted. for example, if you have something thats considered a national security investigation, you get authority to do things ...

Like fiza, national security letters, things like that. those are all valuable intelligence collection tools. >> then we get to this interesting point, right, if its someone whos a domestic u.s. citizen, presumably that national security aspect will not be brought into play, right, if it is a foreign national presumably it will. i wonder what your reaction is to that, hina. >> chris, i think what this really hones in on is the fundamental question weve had since 9/11, which is does an act of ter...