significant change in how if national security agency conducts a portion of its fisa 702 collection. a recent example of the oversight process at work, as a recent example, nasa identified a compliance incident involving queries of u.s. persons identifiers into section 702 upstream data. upstream data refer to when nasa receives communications directly from the internet with the assistance of companies that maintain these backbone networks. the fisk fisa court was promptly notified and doj and odni worked with nsa to understand the scope and causes of the problem,s well as to identify potential solutions to prevent the problem from reoccurring. the details of the incident are publicly available and admiral rogers can go into more detail during the question and answer session if you would like.
amendments act without further amendmt the ielligence community s top legislative priority. and based on the long history of oversight and transparency of this authority, i would urge the congress to enact this legislation at the earliest possible date to give our intelligence professionals the consistency they need to maintain our capability. let me begin today by giving an example of the impact of section 702 of fisa. it s been cited before but i think it is worth mentioning again. nsa fisa collection against an e-mail address used by an al qaeda courier in pakistan revealed communications with an unknown individual located within the united states. the u.s.-based person was urgently seeking advice on how to make explosives. nsa passed this information on
but just allow me briefly to state what happened. nasa identified and researched a compliance issue. nasa excuse me, nsa reported that issue to doj, odni and ultimately the fisa court. the court delayed its consideration of the 2016 certifications on that basis until the government was able to correct the issue. nsa determined that a possible solution to the compliance problem was to stop conducting one we have been listening here to the director of national intelligence, dan coats talking all about fisa because that is what this hearing is ostensibly all about, the reauthorization of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. that said, there is most certainly a subplot to all of this, given what broke overnight, the news that, according to the washington post dan coats was asked by the