CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings July 2, 2014
Information the program collects has been valuable and ineffective in protecting the National Security. The program is operated under a statute that was publicly debated and the text of the statute outlines the basic structure of the program. The operation of the section 702 program has been subject to judicial oversight and extensive andrnal supervision, the board is found no indication of intentional abuse. Outside of this fundamental core, certain aspects of the section 702 program do raise theacy concerns and push Program Close to the line of constitutional reasonableness. Including the sc...