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
Disruption of the plots and the arrest of the al qaeda operatives here. Socalled incidental collection led to the initial identification of these men and enabled the government to use other investigative tools including traditional fisa to vag advance the investigations. Its an invaluable tool in supporting the counterterrorism efforts of our allies around the world. In describing the value of 702 its important to explain why its uniquely important as the Deputy Attorney general from 2006 to 2009 i experienced first hand the consequences of the prefaa approach in some cases it simply was not possible under that prior approach to demonstrate probable cause that a foreign target overseas was an agent of a foreign power. It authorizes the government to obtain critical intelligence about terrorists and other targets that it cannot obtain by other means. In conclusion, i would say that the Authority Congress established under section 702 has played an indispensable role in protecting the na
Whi whitehouses point, theres been no warrant issued for these collections. And when the attention shifts to Americans Communications that are collected over a five year period with 90 plus thousand people outside the United States i think it becomes a moment when the Fourth Amendment would require court approval. Thank you. Last but not least, ms. Brand. Thank you. I would urge congress to reauthorize section 702. I dont think any changes are necessary. I would note that the law in our in depth review of the program and our lengthy report did not recommend legislative changes. We did recommend a number of changes to the way the program operates that could be implemented by the administration or the fisa court. The government is continuing to work on some others. I think those are the appropriates way to handle it. Thank you to all of you, thanks. Senator blumenthal . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome to this very important and helpful panel. It is a very complex topic. Youve given insi
Right now on fox news sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. A deadly shooting at a planned Parenthood Center . Colorado springs is renewing debates over abortion and gun control. But while a suspect is in custody, its still unclear what motivated him to open fire. Well talk with Carly Fiorina in a moment, but first fox news correspondent will carr is live outside the clinic. Will . While robert dear is set to appear in court on monday, the question is why did he kill others. Police have been searching his trailer looking for clues. Dear surrendered on friday and now there are multiple reports that hes been rambling in interviews with investigators, at one point saying no more possibly refer to a video discussion he stormed the planned parenthood with an assault weapon. He previously lived in a cabin in North Carolina with no, and had pasts for Domestic Violence and animal cruelty. People say he never spoke about religion or abortion. At the same time one of his victims,
Colorado springs is renewing debates over abortion and gun control. But while a suspect is in custody, its still unclear what motivated him to open fire. Well talk with Carly Fiorina in a moment, but first fox news correspondent will carr is live outside the clinic. Will . While robert dear is set to appear in court on monday, the question is why did he kill three people and injure nine others. Police have been searching his trailer looking for clues. Dear surrendered on friday and now there are multiple reports that hes been rambling in interviews with investigators, at one point saying no more baby parts. Possibly refer to a video discussion he stormed the assault weapon. He previously lived in a cabin in North Carolina with no, and had pasts for Domestic Violence and animal cruelty. People say he never spoke about religion or abortion. At the same time one of his victims, officer Garrett Swasey is being remembered as a father, an eighth legality and a an athlete and man of god. To p