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Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast. I'm Wells Bennett. On Friday, Brookings hosted Bob Lit,

General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, prompted by recent leaks of

information regarding the government surveillance programs, Bob delivered an address entitled

Privacy, Technology, and National Security, an overview of intelligence collection. His remarks

touched on, among other things, intelligence surveillance under Title 1 and Sections 215 and 702 of

the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA. After the speech, Bob answered questions about

the government surveillance activities. Good morning. Welcome to Brookings. My name is Wells Bennett.

I'm a fellow and national security law here and managing editor of the LawFair blog,

a blog dedicated, we hope, to the non-ideological and rigorous discussion of national security law

issues. That means we have followed a certain story that has been in the news lately. It's the

story that I suspect brought all of you here and also brought our speaker today, Bob Lit, the

General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. By this, of course, I mean

the recent revelations about certain intelligence activities. Our government chiefly

surveillance conducted pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA.

That, I think it's fair to say, has generated some controversy about the legality,

about the effectiveness and the wisdom of these surveillance activities. And there are also

some pretty serious questions about privacy as we live now in an era in which vast swaths of our

personal data are pushed out into the cloud to third parties. We're going to hear about that.

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