Lawfare Archive: Judge John Bates on FISA in the News
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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From September 28, 2019: At the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, Benjamin Wittes sat down in front of a live audience with Judge John Bates, a senior district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Bates has served on the court since 2001, and from 2009 to 2013, he served as the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court. Wittes and Judge Bates talked about the role of the FISA Court, its procedures and caseload, its recent prominence in the news, and how the court might respond to cases that have an overtly political context.
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| 0:16.4 | slash Lawfair. Also check out Lawfair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, lawfare no bull, and the aftermath. I'm Mickelson Internet Lawfair with an episode from the Lawfare Archive for March 9, 2024. |
| 0:45.6 | Back in December, Congress decided to extend the expiration date of the Foreign Intelligence |
| 0:49.6 | Surveillance Act, Section 702 to April of this year. |
| 0:53.0 | A contentious issue surrounding reauthorization of Section 702 |
| 0:57.0 | is whether to allow the FBI or other Intelligence Community |
| 1:01.0 | components to query 702 collections. |
| 1:05.0 | Lawfare senior editor Stephanie Pell wrote about this issue for lawfare this week, |
| 1:10.0 | which you can read on lawfare media.org. |
| 1:12.0 | For today's archive episode I chose an |
| 1:14.4 | episode from September 28th 2019. In the episode Benjamin Wittis sat down |
| 1:19.3 | with Judge John Bates who had previously served as the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance |
| 1:24.8 | Court. |
| 1:25.8 | Wittis and Judge Bates talked about the role of the FISA Court, its procedures and caseload, |
| 1:30.2 | and more. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast. We are at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, and I have here with me a real live FISA judge, or rather to be precise, a real |
| 1:58.3 | live former FISA judge. |
| 2:00.8 | John Bates is a senior judge on the DC. a since 2001. That is correct. |
| 2:14.0 | And in that time he was appointed to be the presiding judge of the foreign intelligence surveillance court, |
| 2:21.0 | which as is now commonly known is the super-duper secret |
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