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Joining us this morning from los angeles. He is from George Mason University law school, the founder of the National Security both for area thanks being here this morning. Jamil jaffer, we will start with you. Theave a conversation about usa freedom act and what congress has to get to and reauthorized. Tell us first what the usa freedom act is and why it was passed in the first place. Caller sure, well, bill, you aspiringe are three provisions in the usa freedom act that would be rubberized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Reauthorized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Somewhere he added years later your specifically, the provisions expiring now are one that allows the government to identify and surveil terrorists who do not have a proven connection to a foreign power, and the second is called the wiretap authority, that gives ability to follow suspects when they switched their cell phones or emailed address rapidly to avoid surveillance. And th
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har
The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the war is far from over. I wish it were but it is no
The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the war is far from over. I wish it were but it is no