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The part of this administration and this president in coordination with devin nunes, to try to manufacture a scandal to defend the president's 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, they've 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 they've thrown section 702 in the mix and undermined its necessity and suggested that we have a rogue int...

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 facts in this election cycle. it would be difficult to overstate the scale of malicious cyber activity ...

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 intellectual property and make greater strides towards cyber attack capabilities. we have a hard working and de...

Attacks, and i'm 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. >> thank you, vice chairman. let me say for all members. votes are no longer scheduled for 10:30. if y...

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 outside the united states, but whose foreign communications happen to be routeded to and acquired i...