Understanding Electronic Surveillance with NSA's Former Top Lawyer

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel at the National Security Agency, about how and when the NSA is authorized to use electronic surveillance to collect intelligence on foreign targets. Gerstell offers a detailed explanation of the origins and evolution of the Foreign Intellingence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the statute, most commonly referred to as Section 702, that allows electronic surveillance using U.S. electronic communications service providers. He and Morell walk through the legal limitations put forth in the statute and the debate currently surrounding its reauthorization by Congress.

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0:00.0	Glenn Gerstell is the former General Counsel of the National Security Agency.
0:06.6	He joins us today to talk about the coming debate over the reauthorization of a key section
0:12.0	of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
0:14.8	Just a note that we taped this late in 2022, so any references to next year mean 2023.
0:22.1	We'd be losing not only the authority that keeps our nation safe, but we'd also be losing
0:26.2	some of these very important privacy and civil liberties guardrails, which are all part
0:31.8	in parcel of the statute.
0:33.0	So there's no question on a national security side that not having this statute is going
0:37.0	to be a big, big hole in what we can do.
0:40.7	We'll be right back with that discussion after a quick break.
0:44.1	I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters.
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