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
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Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the Intelligence Community inspector general. We have forthcoming next week ill breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, actually would be from the House Intelligence Committees. Even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of our political discourse in a way the intelligence agencies itself began to be earlier in this cycle in a in a way that was unp