CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings December 24, 2014
Since 1978 when the fisa court was created there have been two appeals of the lower courts decisions. I think thats a really amazing statistic. We wanted to include a mechanism that would create the opportunity for additional appellate review given the types of things that the fisa court has been reviewing especially in the last decade or so the bulk collection programs of course being a prime example of that. It also included information related to the nondisclosure orders that, long with section 215 orders and National Security letters and this gets to some of the transparency issues we have...