Hearing for EXAMINING RECOMMENDATIONS TO REFORM FISA AUTHORITIES (2014)
Serial No. 113-62
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Some excerpts….
“On January 17th, President Obama also announced his desire
to transfer the query approval of metadata from the NSA to the
FISA court. I am interested to hear from today's witnesses
whether such a reform will, in fact, result in greater privacy
protections without weakening national security.
President Obama also endorsed additional privacy
protections for foreigners overseas. He instructed the Attorney
General and Director of National Intelligence to take the
unprecedented step of extending certain protections that we
have for the American people to people overseas. Specifically,
President Obama called for limiting the duration that personal
information about foreign nationals is stored while also
restricting the use of this information. Is it wise to restrain
our national security agencies by extending to foreigners the
rights and privileges afforded Americans?”
“For the first time, the public understands that our
Government is engaged in widespread domestic surveillance. This
surveillance includes, but isn't limited to, the Government's
collection of records on virtually every phone call placed in
the United States under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.”
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg86549/html/CHRG-113hhrg86549.htm
balkanization – FISA
In addition, the pending legislation continues to rely, at least to some degree, on the location of the surveillance target. For now, that may be the best we can do. For the long run, however, we may need more radical change. If the government genuinely cannot determine a person’s location, it makes no sense to use geography as a trigger for FISA’s warrant requirements. In those circumstances, a geographical approach will always be too broad or too narrow – treating all communicating parties, or none, as if they were in the United States.
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/06/guide-to-new-fisa-bill-part-ii.html