Matt Olsen on the Future of Section 702

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🗓️ 3 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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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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1:06.0	So if you think about the law as it was passed in 2000,
1:10.0	first the Protect America Act and then 702 in 2008,
1:14.0	that was passed at a time that you had a very unpopular president,
1:20.0	Republican president, President Bush.
1:22.0	You had Democrats controlling both houses of congress.
1:24.0	And as a result, the law that was passed represented
1:28.0	a pretty thoughtful balance of the various viewpoints on how to
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