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Followed suit in september 2012. what has changed, however, is the intensity, scale and scope of the threats that face our nation. this is not the time to needlessly roll back and handicap our capabilities. i know a lot of people will use this hearing as an opportunity to talk about the committee's russian investigation. i would like to remind everyone that 702 is one of our most effective tools against terrorism and attorney intelligence targets. i hope my colleagues and those closely watching this hearing realize that at the end of the day our constitutional obligation is to keep america and...

Reverse targeting. could you explain and clarify the reverse targeting prohibition and what does it prevent the i.c. from targeting and collecting? >> reverse targeting is designed to preclude our ability to by pass the law. the law is expressly designed to ensure that we are not using this legal framework as a capability to target u.s. persons. reverse targeting is the following scenario. say we're interested in generating insight on u.s. person a. we know that we can't get a fisa warrant. the idea of reverse targeting the theory would be well, why don't you target a foreign entity that that ...

Allowed nsa to gain a robust body of knowledge concerning the person network of he and his associates. over a two-year period using fisa section 702 collection and in close collaboration with our i.c. partners, nsa produced more intelligence on his institutes including their location. nsa and its tactical partners then combined this information, the section 702 collection which was continuing and other intelligence assets to identify him and track his movements. ultimately, this collaboration enabled u.s. forces to attempt an apprehension of him and two of his associates. on march 24th, 2016, ...

Intelligence professionals, an act, if true, that could erode the public's trust in our institutions. the i.c. as i've grown to know over the last 7 1/2 years i've been on this committee prides itself appropriately on its fierce independence. any attempt by the white house or even the president himself to exploit this community as a tool for political purposes is deeply, deeply troubling. i respect all of your service to the nation. i understand that answering some of the questions that the panel will pose today may be difficult or uncomfortable given your positions in the administration. but ...

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 ...