Minutes. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce to the audience both here in this room and obviously to the world out there, i think i can say new director still and get away with that, chris ray of the fbi. Director ray comes from new york city, graduated from Yale University in 89. Makes me feel old. Earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 92. He then clerked for judge michael yuteg. He began working in private practice in atlanta. And in 1997 worked as assistant district attorney. In 2001 he joined the office of the Deputy Attorney general where he served as associate Deputy Attorney general and then principle associate Deputy Attorney general with oversight responsibilities spanning the full department. Its clearly a very rich curriculum vitae that makes him very, very appropriate for the job he holds now at the fbi. Worth further ado, why dont i let you make your remarks and then we will do some question and answers. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thanks, david, and th
Entirety at cspan. Org. The senate about the gavel in, reauthorizing the house approved fisa program reauthorization. A vote on that set for 5 30. D the senate. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the fountain of wisdom, as our lawmakers do the work of freedom, give them the assurance of your provisions and prevailing presence. Remind them of your promise to never leave or forsake your people. Nourish our senators, this day, with spiritual verities and moral qualities that will make our nation strong and good. Surround them and their loved ones with the shield of your divine favor, being for them a shade by day and a defense by night. And lord, in this land we love, draw together the diverse men and women from every race, creed, and culture forging us into a united force for good. Empower us to accomplish your purposes on earth, as we remember that words matter and that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempor
The comments of the senator from new york state. Also he has talked about 702, and let me refer to that a bit. Section 702 is in s. 139, the amendments reauthorization act of 117. Were going to vote very soon whether to cut off debate and block any amendments on the fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that fails to reform one of our most important surveillance tools. Section 702 of the fisa Amendment Act was intended to provide for vast and powerful surveillance of foreigners overseas who might do harm to us, and it does. But the fact that it is an effective surveillance tool used against foreigners abroad is not the concern you hear about today. Today youre going to hear a concern that section 702 has become an unexpected and powerful domestic surveillance tool. Not one directed at those abroad who might do us harm but potentially directed at every single american in this room and throughout this country, allowing the government to search for americas emails and other substantiv
Today fbi director Christopher Wray took part and a discussion on the pending renewal of the section seven the two of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which allows surveillance on foreign citizens under specific circumstances a doctor that impact the authority has on his agency. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce to the audience both here in this realm and obviously to the world out there, i think i can say new director still and get away with that, chris ray of the fbi. Director ray comes from new york city, graduated from Yale University in 89 makes me feel old, earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 92. He then click for judge michael of u. S. Court of appeals for the fourth district. In 1993 began working in private practice in atlanta. He began at the department of justice grid in 1997 as an assistant u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of georgia where he prosecuted a series of cases on public corruption, and trafficking and financial fraud. In 2001 he j
Its because of the data generated under this Statutory Authority we have been able in the after math to take data to use the information that we generate under 702 to go back to them and say we have proof that the individual that executed this has ties to isis. There are additional people involved. Here is who they are. They are trying to mask the identity. Here is their strategy because they want to use them again in the future. They want to use them in the future to carry out attacks. It is in one particular country. The insight generated has enabled us to achieve insight from a Cyber Security perspective. We would not be able to generate some of the insights we would not have the same level of incite with cyber action around the world directed against our neighbors as well as directed against the u. S. Structure. I hope one of the take aways when we talk about why this is so valuable its you get a sense of how unique this is, the fact that it generates incites that have direct actio