Josh Geltzer on 702 Reauthorization
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Joshua Geltzer is the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the White House, part of the National Security Council staff. He is the president's point person on the reauthorization battle surrounding Section 702, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act section that authorizes broad collection against overseas targets using domestic infrastructure. He joined Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about 702, the problems it has had, the reasons the government thinks it needs it still and wants it reauthorized, and the tough legislative landscape the government is facing between traditional left anxieties about the statute and those of the Trumpist right.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
| 0:07.2 | podcast become a material supporter of LawFair at patreon.com slash LawFair, that's patreon.com slash |
| 0:16.8 | LawFair. Also check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. I think a huge thing that's that's notably evolved in this |
| 0:36.8 | year's cycle is the breath of value as more bad actors around the world have frankly used |
| 0:43.2 | US communications technology and tried to exploit what it provides. That's one category. |
| 0:49.3 | Then there are, and I want to be very candid about this, there are compliance incidents |
| 0:52.8 | and those incidents in particular have involved the FBI overwhelmingly inadvertently conducting |
| 0:59.4 | queries and in particular queries involving information associated with US persons in |
| 1:05.0 | ways inconsistent with the rules set out by the executive branch and blessed by the |
| 1:10.1 | adviser. And that's unacceptable. We won't comply. It's to be effective. I'm Benjamin |
| 1:15.2 | Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast July 28, 2023. Josh Geltzer is the deputy Homeland |
| 1:25.6 | Security Advisor at the White House part of the National Security Council staff. He is |
| 1:32.8 | the president's point person on the reauthorization battle surrounding section 702, the Foreign |
| 1:40.3 | Intelligence Surveillance Act section that authorizes broad collection against overseas |
| 1:48.0 | targets using domestic infrastructure. Josh joined me in the virtual jungle studio |
| 1:55.2 | to talk about 702, the problems it has had, the reasons the government thinks it needs |
| 2:03.6 | it still and wants it reauthorized and the tough legislative landscape, the government |
| 2:10.3 | is facing between traditional left anxieties about the statute and those of the Trumpist |
| 2:18.3 | right. It's the LawFair podcast July 28, Josh Geltzer on 702 reauthorization. |
| 2:27.0 | All right, so Josh, before we get into 702, I want you to orient listeners a little bit |
| 2:36.0 | about who you are exactly and what your role in the 702 reauthorization is. Yeah, so |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Lawfare Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Lawfare Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.