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The bill will allow officials to quickly and complete ly review communications here at home and abroad, while we can respect the liberties of americans here at home. >> so 702 authorizes the nsa to go after certain forms of communications, terrorist communications that, are coming from outside the country to inside the country. and the metadata collection program is information about information. this is the phone up in, two and from, date, time and duration of the call. that is all that is in t...

People. we can respect the liberties of americans here at home. >> so 702 authorizes the nsa to go after certain forms of communications, terrorist communications that, are coming from outside the country to inside the country. and the metadata collection program is information about information. this is the phone up in, two and from, date, time and duration of the call. that is all that is in the data base. there is no conversations. . there is nothing about your communication or mine. once a n...

Also show richmans responsibilities included terrorist communications and legal questions about federal investigations into state and local courts and the records indicate that richman was sent talking points about the clinton email case from comeys staff. a review of media reporting fox found he gave multiple interviews outside his assigned his f.b.i. areas of responsibility and in those interviews he defended comey and his handling of the clinton email case. the f.b.i. declined to comment for ...

Process for accidental collection or minimizing those who are involved? incidental collection is the name given to if youre targeting a terrorist, lets say who is in yemen and he happens to be using an american e-mail provider to communicate, so under 702, the u.s. intelligence community can collect that terrorist communications. hes outside the united states and hes not an american. if an american contacts that terrorist, sends himle an e-ma lets imagine its a g-mail account, his g-mail, that w...

I dont doubt that there is no evidence, hard evidence at this moment but you and i both know that over recent months, all terrorist communications have moved to the dark web and that is not penetrated by the intelligence committee and as a result of that, its hard to believe with all this having gone on, these people werent communicating with somebody and in addition to that, the suspicion it adds is the missing hard drive. we need to set that stuff aside, call this what it is. its a terrorist a...

Saying. but in the current climate, it bears repeating. muslim-americans are working every day on the front lines of the fight against radicalization. another challenge is how to strike the right balance of protecting privacy and security. encryption of mobile communications presents a particularly tough problem. we should take the concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals seriously. they have warned that impenetrable encryption may prevent them from accessing terrorist comm...

And al qaeda terrorist plotters wherever they are. >> why do you think this paris plan slipped through the cracks here? obviously you guys have been very aggressive. do you have issues now in monitoring cell phones? do you have issues that youre facing that stood in the way of you being able to break up this plot? >> well, time will tell as the investigation of the paris attacks continues. and obviously the french are leading that and are very focused and were working very closely with them, sha...

I want to play you what the president had to say about that and get your response. >> thats why were putting in place new restrictions on how america collects and uses intense. >> i think the dialogue, even though im not happy about how it began last year, has been pretty good overall. including the presidents own role. i think most americans that i know are wrestling with this very question in a thoughtful way. on the one hand, we need to be able to look for evidence of terrorist communications...

In a speech this morning, the president outlined the steps he planned to take to reform the nsas approach to intelligence gathering. he struck a very careful balance today, stressing the need for surveillance, while recognizing the privacy concerns of citizens. here is om of the reforms the president laid out. the establishment of a panel of privacy advocates who will be permitted to argue before the fisa court on certain cases. in other words, to make a case against the intelligence community i...

A third approach would be replicating the data we need with other programs that dont allow the government -- dont enable the government to possess the bulk database. >> some of our viewers are probably confused as well. there wouldnt be any one institution holding all of these numbers, the duration of the phone calls and all of that? >> well, wolf, let me point out that the providers would hold these business records anyway but the third option is instead of drawing on a database, can the intell...