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Further ensuring that individuals privacy isnt properly protected without sacrificing operational effectiveness. To that end, we support the usa freedom act as an effective means of addressing the concerns that have been raised about the impact of our activities while preserving the authorities we need for National Security. We are urge this committee to give the house bill serious consideration as expeditiously as possible, consistent with this committees elaborations. We are ready to work with...

Officials from the department of Homeland Security, the fbi and the office of the director of National Intelligence testified. This is an hour and 45 minutes. We will hear from the department of Homeland Security about how they can best keep america safe and from those who would seek to carry out deadly attacks against our country and its people. We also hear about actors in cyberspace who want to drain our bank accounts, shut down our fragile systems, our electric grid, steal our identical iden...

Election. I applaud him the easy thing to do for elected leaders and politicians is take a poll. There is an old saying that politicians, basically a mob marching on city hall. He did not do that. Welling the spend Political Capital to cut taxes and restrict the size of government which will help the economy. I think that we need leaders that are willing to use the Political Capital to implement pulled strategies. A think he will be rewarded. As people see the results you will see poll numbers i...

Mr. Murphy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy if were in a quorum call, i ask that it bees dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i ask seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objec...

For the purposes of getting on top of this and working with all of you, my question today is how many of these warrantless searches for Americans Communications have been conducted under section 702 . For you, mr. Ledgett. July, senator wyden thank you, senator wyden. The searches under the onlyment, section 702, are conducted under unlawfully acquired data and under approved procedures. The searches are not just conducted by nsa. They involve other agencies as well. We have provided, as you kno...

My colleagues to speak more in depth on the intelligence front. I would say operationally, what you are suggesting, that the program ought to have a heightened scrutiny on iraqis is in fact what happens. This was a chronology and when the United States government announced a largescale resettlement of iraqis in 2007, we immediately looked at what we should be doing in light of this particular population which was different, in nationality we had not been resettling a great deal. We looked at enh...

Travel of other u. S. Citizens engaged in the region. Now i appreciate that. I would just mention time is of the essence here, i think. I i think youre going to be looking at, as i say, one member that is going to be introducing legislation today about these issues. Im trueing to assist you and you know, well see quickly the congress can act. But we are looking for feedback from all of you. With that, the chair recognizes miss jackson lee from texas. Again, let me thank the chairman and thank my...

More information of how the administration collects and assesses intelligence than about what actually happened there and how events unfolded in benghazi the day our ambassador and three other americans were killed. Today by pure coincidence or perhaps just in time to provide political cover for the president in tonights debate, the white house has sent forth senior officials to blame the Central Intelligence agency for the administrations contradiction of construction and accounts of what happe...

The bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused, but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools that our intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies need. The bill would also provide Greater Transparency to the public concerning intelligence activities and authorize the Surveillance Court to appoint independent amicus so alternative view...

Rights on personal privacy that are guaranteed to us. Nevertheless, i think we must carefully review and analyze consequences of any proposed notges to ensure that we do compromise our ability to detect threats against american citizens. The sirennot play to song of the political response simply to these people that we are responding to their misperceptions, in many cases, because there is too much at stake, mainly the security of americans. Compromising to please a skeptical and frequently misi...