Lawfare No Bull: Matt Olsen Talks Cyber Threats and the ODNI's Latest Report

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today on Lawfare No Bull: On April 29, at the 2022 Verify Conference hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Aspen Institute, journalist Aruna Viswanatha hosted a fireside chat with Matt Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division at the Justice Department. They discussed the report published earlier that day from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that disclosed, for the first time, that the FBI had searched the section 702 database 3.4 million times to access information regarding U.S. persons last year. They also spoke about current cyber powers, how cyber threats have shifted in the past decade and the Justice Department’s recent efforts to go after Russian oligarchs following the invasion of Ukraine.

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0:47.5	No Bull.
0:48.6	A LawFair podcast that features primary source audio from the world of national security
0:52.6	law and policy.
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1:00.2	think tank events, and other events we think are of interest to LawFair readers and listeners.
1:05.4	Today's episode features audio from the 2022 Verify Conference hosted by the William
1:10.3	and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Aspen Institute.
1:13.9	In the episode, journalist Arunavis Wenatha sat down with Matt Olson, the assistant attorney
1:18.9	general for the National Security Division at the Justice Department.
1:22.4	To discuss a report published earlier that day from the Office of the Director of National
1:26.2	Intelligence, the report revealed that for the first time, the FBI conducted approximately
1:30.8	3.4 million warrantless searches of Americans personal data in 2021.
1:36.5	This is LawFair No Bull.
1:44.3	For those of you who haven't seen it yet, the Director of National Intelligence just put
1:48.0	out an annual report that for the first time disclosed the number of times the FBI in
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