Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, legislation that gives Government Authority to monitor internet activities of nonu. S. Citizens. The Stanford University Hoover Institute hosted this event. This panel is an hour and 15 minutes. Tiny little table. All right. We are about to get started again. There are still a lot of seats in the front, too, so i encourage people to fill in as much as possible. Im russell wald, the manager manager here at the Hoover Institution. For our next portion of todays conference, we will focus on the law and Civil Liberties of section 702. Im going to do a very brief introduction of the esteemed panel and tush it over to the moderator. First i would start with Julian Sanchez whos a senior fellow at the Cato Institute where he focuses on the intersection of technology and privacy. Alex abdo is senior attorney with columbia universitys knight First Amendment institute. Formerly a senior staff attorney at the aclu where he has argued cases before the federal
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
Of these activities. Id like to welcome our from the cybersury company mandia. Mr. Mandia served in the united stes air force as a Computer Security officer and later as special agent in the air force officef office of special investigations wheree worked s a cybercrime investigator. Thank you for being here today. And general alexander serd for 40 years in our armed forces, culminating with his ten qure as the director of the National Security agency from 2005 to 20 andoncurrent serve as director of u. S. Cybercommand from 2010 to 2014. Thank you for being here today. It is an expert ontudies, he worked as the university in jusalem, Johns Hopkins schl. Dr. Rid, thank yous well for your expertise and we look. Orward to your testimo sen. Burr the levelf cybersecurity in front of us is truly remarkable. Eyl be able to provide atn unassified levelome extremy useful texture and detail to the discussion w ben this morning i feel certain, and i say is to all three of you, that the committee
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