Lawfare Archive: Matt Olsen on the Future of Section 702
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🗓️ 11 December 2021
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Summary
From June 3, 2017: With the impending sunset of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in December 2017, debate is heating up over how the crucial intelligence-gathering provision will be reauthorized by Congress—and even if it will be reauthorized at all. At the Hoover Institution, Benjamin Wittes sat down with former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen to talk about the intelligence community's perspective on 702 and what lies ahead for it in these turbulent times.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Emily Day and this is an episode from the LawFair archives for December 11th 2021. |
| 0:45.0 | On December 8th, the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit found that information collected |
| 0:48.6 | from warrantless surveillance of non-United States persons living abroad, not violate the |
| 0:52.8 | constitutional rights of John Sched Murrow. |
| 0:55.5 | The opinion ruled that the surveillance of Murrow under Section 702 of the Foreign |
| 0:59.3 | Intelligence Surveillance Act was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. |
| 1:03.5 | Section 702 is a highly controversial statute that allows the NSA to conduct |
| 1:07.7 | dragnet warrantless surveillance of non-US persons outside the country. |
| 1:11.7 | To delve deeper into Section 702, I chose an episode from June 3rd, 2017, in which Matt |
| 1:17.6 | Olson talks about the intelligence community's perspective on 702 and what lies ahead for |
| 1:22.5 | it. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair Podcast June 3rd, 2017. On December 31st, |
| 1:37.3 | 2017, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a central component |
| 1:43.2 | of U.S. intelligence gathering and national security for the last decade, will sunset |
| 1:48.0 | and less renewed by Congress. This week at the Hoover Institution, Benjamin Woodace |
| 1:52.9 | sat down with former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Matt Olson, to talk |
| 1:58.0 | about the intelligence community's perspective on 702, what may lie ahead for the program |
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