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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, legislation that gives Government Authority to monitor internet activities of nonu. S. Citizens. The Stanford University Hoover Institute hosted this event. This panel is an hour and 15 minutes. Tiny little table. All right. We are about to get started again. There are still a lot of seats in the front, too, so i encourage people to fill in as much as possible. Im russell wald, the manager manager here at the Hoover Institution. For our next portion of todays conference, we will focus on the law and Civil Liberties of section 702. Im going to do a very br...

My complaint is the way that its structured which, you know, i think is largely one side. Our adversarial system is built for a reason. Its very difficult to test programs of this complexity in a onesided way and i think thats why it doesnt come earlier and thoroughly examined as you want them to be. A broader point too, if you look at the opinions, these dont read like ordinary article, they read like reports, rules of the road for nsa, government and court and not normally documented like in federal court with form filings and the like. Looks bike the back and forth that happens in committee...

Different measure, they will rebuild the map and show where the money was coming from in San Francisco or outside of San Francisco, and this one was coming from morin. We are also showing the loans that are committees are receiving and so here is where we see, things that dont measure off and this is the half a Million Dollar loan and it has not been paid back. And we also revealed who the lenders are. And then the last thing that we show, are any inkind contribution and so for instance, again on measure f, we have about 70,000 donated by the developer, and donate the employee time of 70,000 a...

Mark far ill has received the most money, and just to pick on him, what i can do is i can actually click the search box and this is actually interactive and so i can actually just type in farrell, and it will rebuild the chart so that we can look at some of these smaller lines and see which firms are giving the smaller ones as well. And i say, okay, there is this 400 240u, for the association of realtors and lets say that i want to do more research on that and all that i have to do at the bottom is type in the realtors. And they ril rebuild the chart and show me all of the candidates that have...

This is the last section lobbyist ands their contribution to candidates. And so because they are required on a monthly basis to report any of the contributions that they are making or arranging or delivering. We have been the starts that are lifting to the local office in november and then right here, it shows all of the firms and what you can do, you can actually mouse over any candidate and it will display the firm and how much money they have been giving. And so you can see here, that mark far ill has received the most money, and just to pick on him, what i can do is i can actually click th...