Further ensuring that individuals privacy isnt properly protected without sacrificing operational effectiveness. To that end, we support the usa freedom act as an effective means of addressing the concerns that have been raised about the impact of our activities while preserving the authorities we need for National Security. We are urge this committee to give the house bill serious consideration as expeditiously as possible, consistent with this committees elaborations. We are ready to work with the senate to clarify language in the bill as necessary. In closing, we appreciate the committees leadership, in particular your support over the past year in considering issues related to our intelligence collection activities and privacy and Civil Liberties issues. We also appreciate your support for the men and women working throughout the Intelligence Community that includes the nsa, that remained dedicated to keeping our nation safe and protecting our privacy, and to have upheld the oath b
For the purposes of getting on top of this and working with all of you, my question today is how many of these warrantless searches for Americans Communications have been conducted under section 702 . For you, mr. Ledgett. July, senator wyden thank you, senator wyden. The searches under the onlyment, section 702, are conducted under unlawfully acquired data and under approved procedures. The searches are not just conducted by nsa. They involve other agencies as well. We have provided, as you know, detailed information to the committee on the background on this, and we will work with the to and the rest of the ic provide information to you. So, when will i get an answer to the question . It is a specific question. The director admitted to me in a letter that the wireless searches are taking place that the war and this searches are taking place, and i am asking how many warrantless searches are taking place, and i am asking how many . I would like it within two weeks. Yes, sir. Can we ha
The bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused, but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools that our intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies need. The bill would also provide Greater Transparency to the public concerning intelligence activities and authorize the Surveillance Court to appoint independent amicus so alternative views could be heard. Mentioned, hr 3361 establishes a new mechanism under section 215 that permits the government to access telephony metadata without having to collect it in bulk. It includes all of the Key Attributes identified by the president in march for a new program, including, in particular, a requirement that absent an emergency situation, the government would obtain the records only pursuant to individual orders from the fisa court, approved with the use of certain selection terms for suc
Rights on personal privacy that are guaranteed to us. Nevertheless, i think we must carefully review and analyze consequences of any proposed notges to ensure that we do compromise our ability to detect threats against american citizens. The sirennot play to song of the political response simply to these people that we are responding to their misperceptions, in many cases, because there is too much at stake, mainly the security of americans. Compromising to please a skeptical and frequently misinform the public, and therefore losing our ability to protect americans is something we have to take very seriously. I think as we go forward we have to carefully weigh and consider the response of general alexander to my question to him in a public hearing, when i asked him about the question of diminishing our capabilities to detect and thwart an attack. His answer was americans will die. We i hope as we go forward keep that in mind as we examine how we are reconstructing this program, and mak
This is a server that was in her home is she durning over anything helelse . It was in chappaqua, new york, when she was first becoming secretary of state. Her advisors said she should have a private email server. So shes turning that over and shes turned over a flash drive that has copies of all these other emails she had. This is something her attorney has been holding on to. Its something that have been so reluctant to surrender. We saw her say at the u. N. At this press conference in march 10, we both were there and she said i am not turning over this private server. Well, a lot has happened since then which led us to this point right now. We may not know the answer, im curious. Are these pdfs on these flash drives or the actual emails . Were not sure, right . Sounds like they are copies of emails. We have both waded through these copies that theyve released bit by bit. So you have this email controversy thats been following her throughout this campaign especially when potential vo