Lawfare Archive: Jim Baker and Carl Ghattas on Section 702
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
From July 29, 2017: On December 31, 2017, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act will sunset. While U.S. officials insist that the provision authorizes critical intelligence gathering, it remains an open question whether Congress will reauthorize the law as it exists, pass it with amendments, or allow it to lapse altogether. In this week's podcast, Susan Hennessey sits down with FBI General Counsel Jim Baker and the Bureau's Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch Carl Ghattas to discuss the FBI's perspective on the legal and operational elements of Section 702.
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| 1:01.0 | T's and sees apply. I'm too. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm too I'm Caleb Benjamin, intern at Law Fair with an episode from the Law Fair Archive for December 16th, |
| 1:19.0 | 2023. |
| 1:20.7 | This past week, several pieces in Lawfare discussed a pair of FISA Section 702 |
| 1:25.0 | reauthorization bills the House of Representatives was considering in anticipation of |
| 1:29.4 | 702's expiration date at the end of this year. However, after debates in the House over how to |
| 1:34.4 | properly address reauthorization stalled, Congress added an amendment to the National Defense Authorization |
| 1:40.0 | Act for fiscal year 2024, extending Section 702 authorization until April 2024. |
| 1:47.0 | Congress has now passed the NDA kicking the Section 702 fight down the road for a few months. |
| 1:53.1 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from July 2017 in which Susan Hennessy sat down |
| 1:58.5 | with Jim Baker and Carl Gadis to discuss the FBI's perspective on the legal and operational elements of Section 702. |
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