Julian welcome back to the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. I remain senior fellow julian sanchez. Thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this years conference. This morning, you heard about an array of institutions that work to oversee the secret you seven the secret use of intelligence collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties oversight, which has produced a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. What im sure will be a fascinating discussion, i wi
Work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogens collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. Will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished. Oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. It is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the conversation with the members. We have three of the five members with us today. Two had conflicts and were not able to attend. Am going to basically do something nontraditional and allow them to introduce themselves. Ive seen this do
Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
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