I Have gone to Lynch

MS. LYNCH: Within the Department of Justice, the authority to sign FISA

warrants rests within the Attorney General, and it is delegated to - or delegable,

and has been delegated to the Deputy Attorney General and to the head of the

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MS. LYNCH:

There is a number of ways in

which information is provided. So I don't have that information for you.

National Security Division, as long as lhe head of the National Security Division

has been Senate confirmed.

So if for example there is a situation where the head of the NSD, as we call

it, were to depart, if the person who took over is acting, were not confirmed to that

position, that person would not be signing the FlSAs, just by way of example

This is very interesting part

I Have gone to Lynch

Okay.

I would like to turn your attention,

Madam Attorney General,

over to what we commonly refer to as FISA, the Foreign lntelligence Surveillance

Act.

Within the Department of Justice,

I think you mentioned this, there

are – correct me if I am wrong - only three individuals that can authorize a FISA

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That is the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and the Senate-confirmed

Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. ls that correct?

A Well, to authorize the request of a FISA. lt is the FISA court that

actually aulhorizes the surveillance.

O Right. Thank you.

And are there any other individuals at DOJ who

can make that authorization to the FISC?

A No.