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Seniority for questions up to five minutes. with that, gentlemen, thank you for being here today. director coats, you are recognized to give testimony on behalf of all four of you. the floor is yours. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman burr, chairman warner, members of the committee, we are pleased to be here today at your request to talk about an important and perhaps the most important piece of legislation that affects the intelligence community. i am here with my colleagues. i would liketotakethe opportunity to explain in some detail section 702, given this as a public hearing, and hopef...

To target u.s. persons anywhere in the world. third, they may not be used to target anyone located inside the united states regardless of their nationality, and fourth, they may not be used to target a foreign person when the intent is to acquire the communications of a u.s. person with whom a foreign person is communicating. this is generally referred to as the prohibition against reverse targeting. the third item i would like to stress is that we are committed to ensuring that the intelligence community's use of 702 is consistent with the law and the protection of the privacy and civil liber...

Congress enacted the amendments to the freedom act, the act that established the fisa, there have been no instances of intentional violations of section 702. with those points as a backdrop, now let me turn to a discussion of why it became necessary for congress to enact section 702. i do this so that the american public can hopefully, better understand the basis for this important law. the foreign intelligence and surveillance act was first passed in 1978. creating a way for the federal government to obtain court orders for electronic surveillance of suspected spies, terrorists and foreign di...

Seniority for questions up to five minutes. with that, gentlemen, thank you for being here today. director coates, you are recognized to give testimony on behalf of all four of you. the floor is yours. >> thank you, mr. chairman, chairman burr, chairman warner, members of the committee. we're pleased to be here today to talk about the most important piece of legislation that affects the intelligence community. i'm here with my colleagues. i would like to take the opportunity to explain in some detail section 702 given this is a public hearing and hopefully the public will be watching our effor...

It also made him a top focus of the nsa's counter terrorism efforts. nsa, along with its ic partners, spent over two years from 2014 to 2016 looking for haji iman. 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 haji iman and his associates beginning with non-section 702 collection, nsa learned of an individual closely associated with haji iman. nsa used collection, permitted and authorized section 702 to co...