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Admiral mike rogers and acting director of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe. i welcome you that you came to discuss title 7 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act known as fisa is set to expire on december 31, 2017. title 7 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 routed to and acquired inside the united states. section 702 collection is exceptionally critical to protecting americans bo...

It also made him a top focus of the nsa's counter terrorism efforts. nsa, along with its i.c. partners, spent over two years from 2014 to 2016 looking for him. 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 he and his institutes beginning with non-section 702 collection nsa learned of an individual closely associated with him. they used the information to collect intelligence on the close associates of iman ...

Years ago, fisa act has been subject to rigorous and constant oversight by all three branches of government. indeed, we regularly report to the intelligence and judiciary committees of both the house and senate how we've implemented the statute. the operational value it has afforded and the measures we take to assure the government's use of these authorities complies with the constitution and the laws of the united states. further, over the past few years we have engaged in an unprecedented amount of public transparency on the use of these authorities. in the interests of transparency and beca...

Needs to be reauthorized and discuss oversight and compliance and continue to ensure the rights of u.s. citizens. rights that need to be protected. at the outset i want to stress three things as a back drop to everything else that my colleagues and i are presenting today. first, as i mentioned at the outset, collection under 702 has produced and continues to produce intelligence that is vital to protect the nation against international terrorism and other threats. secondly, there are important legal limitations found within section 702 of fisa and let me note four of these legal limitations. f...

About whether he leaked classified information when talking about those intelligence reports. joining me now, ned price, former special assistant to president obama, former spokesperson and senior director at the national security council. i guess the lizza reporting here, ned, is confirmation of what i think a lot of people's working theory of this has been. but it's still pretty stunning to read. >> well, it is absolutely stunning. i mean consider for a moment, chris, the hubris required on the part of this administration and this president in coordination with devin nunes, to try to manufac...