Work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogens 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 has produced ah 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. Will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished. Oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. It is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the conversation with the members. We have three of the five members with us today. Two had conflicts and were not able to attend. Am going to basically do something nontraditional and allow them to introduce themselves. Ive seen this do
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Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
There will be some heavy rain coming in tonight. Sonoma county and marin county and San Francisco along the peninsula and the Santa Cruz Mountains overnight into early tomorrow will have heavy rain. We will have what dirt roads. I would think that there is some rain not too far away. It is making a move and there is a line of moderate to heavy rain showing up wayne will return they will be in the 50s and rain is developing later today and then we have snow on wednesday on thursday with highs in the upper 40s and very low 50s today. 51 to 56, below average. That is a rarity. The bay bridge, not the commute direction. This is the eastbound direction and there is an alert with a couple shutdowns because of an earlier crash and i will show you what we are talking about. This is eastbound 80 before treasure island, a collision and two lanes are blocked because of it. If you are driving in the opposite direction, the commute direction to the carquinez bridge, it is 23 minutes. Once you get t