Informal diplomatic immunity and traveled freely through enemy lines. Probably the only american citizen permitted to do so during the entire war. Explore our nations past on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Now its an oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act also known as fisa. The House Judiciary Committee is considering whether to renew several fisa provisions including roving wiretap authority which are said to expire at the end of the year. Representatives from the Justice Department, fbi, and National Security agency testify. This is just over two hours and ten minutes. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our go
Expert panelists we have invited here today. Todays event will look at surveillance powers scheduled to terminate at the end of the year. Call detail records provide information like the time a call and the numbers on either end. The last summer in sa announced it had begun to leading all call records since 2015 under this authority. As part of our continuing oversight of the call detail records we have been reviewing this Program Including challenges in sa has acknowledged. We look forward to providing information to congress at the end of the Years Congress conducts its analysis of the expiring authorities. We hope to provide as much information to the public with the protection of classified information. One final note and that pain before he handed over to my colleagues, we are able to discuss unclassified Public Information and we will not speculate or comment on any speculation that may have appeared in the press. Our agency protects classified information. If we didnt, we wouldn
The privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board of the public for men to discuss the freedom act which is a modified extension of the patriot act. Privacy and data experts examine section 215 which allows the nsc to collect phone records. A morning and thank you to everyone for coming. This is the Second Public event since reba gained our quorum late last year. Much of our agencys work takes place outside the public eye because of classified information. We hope these events will upon the public about her work and the programs we oversee. We hope to learn from the panel a very distinguished expert panelists we have invited here today. Todays event will look at surveillance powers scheduled to terminate at the end of the year. Call detail records provide information like the time a call and the numbers on either end. The last summer in sa announced it had begun to leading all call records since 2015 under this authority. As part of our continuing oversight of the call detail records we
And i think the section 215 program is one that the government has made the argument that they need bruce force collection, they need the retention to identify previously unknown links in information. Have we given thoughts to whether there are technological options available to limit correction for a program like section 215, if you havent been more generally, you can be more specific about correction options. With respect to section 215 the data is collected initially by the phone company. The question is whether the information needs to be transferred in bulk to the Intelligence Community in order for them to do their analysis and it is pretty clear that as a technical matter, the kinds of linking, looking for multi hot links that the intelligence agencies want to do, can be done technically while the information is held to a third party such as the phone companies. This requires a modest amount of technical coordination between the entities holding the data and the entities that ar
Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. We are talking people dying and disappearing if this information is made out of sources of ours to disappear in the middle of the night because the question i have we talk about lawyers, from a legal perspective is what the surveillance needs for Attorney Client privilege and when the government does ims surveillance, how that is protected and that might work. Depends on what mass surveillance you have in mind. That is a hard question to answer. On the journalism question there has been too much