Without objection the chair medically resource recess without objection the chair may declare a recess had any time i want to go through the usual housekeeping matters todays session is an on an unclassified basis all participants should refrain from discussing classified information on Public Disclosure and the committee is conducting the virtual hearing with House Resolution 965 and the resolution of the proceedings is being broadcast live on the Committee Website because it remains ongoing and so we wish we could return to all Events Health and safety protocols means you have alternate means to carry out so let me remind members and consistent with regulations and to limit background noise members are responsible to unmute themselves when they are recognized for their five minutes because there are delays that would ask members andbe witnesses to allow sufficient time to make sure the last speaker is finished. You must have your cameras on at all times if you step away from the proc
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Years now. We watched this in the aftermath of exposures about a collection by nsa itself, the agency unfamiliar to most americans and as we take off our 2019 conference, we find now even intelligence oversight is very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kick off by reports from the Intelligence Community Inspector General. You have forthcoming next week, allegations and misuse of the surveillance act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings from the house Intelligence Committee. Even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intelligence agencies began earlier. In a way that was unprecedented. So we have a special focus this year on not just the Intelligent Agency the self but the messages in place to oversee them. One of the classic problems of Intelligence Surveillance is how to balance the need for operations that are secret. Surveillance that is done publicly in surveillance. How do you balance the need to conduct certa
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Town of dorian. Thank you. I also want to quickly recognize. No as i walked in the door, i saw senator as your state senator. Thank you for being here. [applause] ambassador and partly i want to thank all of you to take the time out of your saturday to have this conversation. This is your hour nap. And i believe the best time for your questions and comments or suggestions. No one open with just a couple of minutes of context and thinks that i see happening in washington and i will turn it over entirely to you the way will do that there are microphones on either side of the room. And rather than having me thinking in choosing within the audience. Please just line up behind the microphones if you are in fact a question or comment. I will ask you to be brave in your questions and observations and i will be brief in my responses because we will probably have lots of people who want to be heard. Another thing i want to see is just see no, we agree to allow cspan2 to record this town hall me