Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our government to keep us safe are consistent are our values and the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework unto which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we do not conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, it falls to us in hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that conduct accords with our values as americans. The outset, i want to acknowledge two things. First, the men and women in
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Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our government to keep us safe are consistent are our values and the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework unto which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we do not conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, it falls to us in hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that conduct accords with our values as americans. The outset, i want to acknowledge two things. First, the men and women in
Informal diplomatic immunity and traveled freely through enemy lines. Probably the only american citizen permitted to do so during the entire war. Explore our nations past on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Now its an oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act also known as fisa. The House Judiciary Committee is considering whether to renew several fisa provisions including roving wiretap authority which are said to expire at the end of the year. Representatives from the Justice Department, fbi, and National Security agency testify. This is just over two hours and ten minutes. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our go
In the senate, he and i would like the u. S. A. Freedom act to go further and we both worked together on legislation that would make additional reforms. And certainly our colleagues on the Intelligence Committee and here in the senate can sphect expect to see us continuing to Work Together to advance these additional reforms over the coming months and years. And for now the two of us are saying we ought to support the u. S. A. Freedom act and then move on move on to other critical areas. I particularly want to see closed whats called the back door search loophole, which my colleague from new mexico talked about. What this means colleagues, is that when you are engaged in a lawful search of someone who is a threat overseas pursuant to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act very often americans lawabiding americans can get swept up in this search and have their emails looked at. This is a problem today and my view is it is likely to be a growing concern in the future be