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Admiral mike rogers and acting director of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe. i welcome you that you came to discuss title 7 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act known as fisa is set to expire on december 31, 2017. title 7 includes several crucial foreign intelligence collection tools including one known primarily as section 702. section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are located outside the united states but whose foreign communications happen to be routed to and acquired i...

It also made him a top focus of the nsas counter terrorism efforts. nsa, along with its i.c. partners, spent over two years from 2014 to 2016 looking for him. 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 he and his institutes beginning with non-section 702 collection nsa learned of an individual closely asso...

Years ago, fisa act has been subject to rigorous and constant oversight by all three branches of government. indeed, we regularly report to the intelligence and judiciary committees of both the house and senate how weve implemented the statute. the operational value it has afforded and the measures we take to assure the governments use of these authorities complies with the constitution and the laws of the united states. further, over the past few years we have engaged in an unprecedented amount...

Needs to be reauthorized and discuss oversight and compliance 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 back drop to everything else that my colleagues and i are presenting today. first, as i mentioned at the outset, collection under 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 l...

About whether he leaked classified information when talking about those intelligence reports. joining me now, ned price, former special assistant to president obama, former spokesperson and senior director at the national security council. i guess the lizza reporting here, ned, is confirmation of what i think a lot of peoples working theory of this has been. but its still pretty stunning to read. >> well, it is absolutely stunning. i mean consider for a moment, chris, the hubris required on the ...

The part of this administration and this president in coordination with devin nunes, to try to manufacture a scandal to defend the presidents indefensible tweet. you know, in doing so, not only did they deceive the american people outright, but as ryan list za points out in his piece, theyve also furl imperilled an important national security tool in the form of fisa section 702. this is a tool that had already come under pressure from some in congress on both the left and the right. now theyve ...

Our reporting are disseminated only to those who have strict need to know for valid purposes which primarily means in support of the development of foreign policy and to protect national security. i do want to specifically mention that among the collection authorities we have to target foreign actors in foreign spaces, fisa section 702 and executive order 12333 have been instrumental in our ability to produce the intelligence made available to the committee and others in gathering the sigint fac...

Information. i do want to specifically mention that among the collection and authorities that we have to target for actors in foreign spaces, fisa section 702 and executive order 1233/ 12333 been instrumental in gathering facts of foreign activity in this election cycle. it would be difficult to overstate the breadth and scale of malicious cyber activity occurring today. our adversaries, include being nation states, have not rested in trying to penetrate government systems, steal our intellectua...

Attacks, and im eager to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make sure that we re-authorize it before the end of this year. a re-authorization of section 702 should ensure also that there is robust oversight and restrictions to protect the privacy and civil liberties of americans. those protections remain in place and if there are areas where those protections can be strengthened, we ought to look at those, as well. so thank you, mr. chairman, i look forward to our hearing. >> ...

Acting director of the federal bureau of investigation andrew mccabe. welcome to all four of you. i appreciate you coming today to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. title vii of the surveillance act commonly known as fisa is set to expire to december 31, 2017. title vii includes several crucial foreign intelligence collection tools including one known primarily as section 702. section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are located...