Before 1978, surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes was conducted by the president without Court Approval, and the courts have consistently said that the president has authority to undertake such surveillance without Court Approval, where the target is a foreign intelligence threats. , but fisao abuses was created as a compromise between branches to enable that surveillance, but to involve article three courts in the review and approval, and congress, the oversight, creating the intelligence oversight i am going to have to be very tough. You have covered and a normas amount. Im very sure you can pick up any individual questions. Thank you thoma. Jameel . Limits start by addressing a degree of frustration by wainsteinthat mr. Said. When we were before the Supreme Court for clapper last year, the government really did repeatedly said that the assertion that the nsa was engaged in largescale surveillance of Americans International to medications under section 702 was speculative a
Leader frist threaten to this kind of event. At the end, who has prevailed combine the compromise was reached. The agreement was we would not filibuster federal judges unless federal extraordinary circumstances existed. That is the way that was settled. With regard to the nominations now, news of extraordinary circumstances. We should not go quietly when the president makes a recess appointment. We object to these people being confined after the court held it it was illegal. They should not have done that. It was never close to being a legitimate recess appointment. I am worried about this. We have come to get the to work this out. With regard to the traditional that center mcconnell talked about, you do not move a nomination until questions are answer relative to the appointment. Nominations just do not go smoothly and get voted the next week. There are a lot of bases with that. The question was, this was raised at the beginning of the year. These issues were discussed hands and an ag
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo