Congress, the FBI, and Section 702 Surveillance

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A law known as Section 702 lets the U.S. scoop up information from foreigners abroad, but agencies like the FBI also sometimes query the database for U.S citizens. Should this provision, created after 9/11, be allowed to expire, or is it still useful in stopping terrorism? What's the best way to maximize accountability and minimize abuse? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:37.9	Congress takes up the section 702 surveillance program of foreigners.
0:42.6	Is it essential to the intelligence community's work or an end run around the Fourth Amendment?
0:47.5	Welcome, Kyle Peterson, with the Wall Street Journal.
0:50.2	We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim
0:56.0	Strussle.
0:57.4	In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, Congress created Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
1:04.2	Surveillance Act, which allows electronic information gathering on non-US citizens that are living
1:11.0	outside of the United States, and also in certain instances, lets the intelligence community
1:16.9	search that database for information on U.S. citizens.
1:21.7	Let's start with a clip of Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
1:25.5	Matthew Olson, this is him testifying on June 13th before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
1:31.6	So let me address one area of particular concern, and that's the FBI's
1:35.5	FBI's use of Section 702 information.
1:39.8	To use the intelligence that the IC collects lawfully, agents and analysts,
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