my name is julian sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here and i'm grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for some five years now. when we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the -- from the intelligence community's inspector general. we have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings aired, going to be from the house intelligence committee. so even intelligence overseers now are at the center of our political discourse in the way the intelligence agencies themselves began to be earlier in this cycle, in the way that was

her to break it all down cato institute julian sanchez will come back. >> the ethics or have me. >> aretraged by the contents of the horwitz report? >> there is plain there to be outraged about seek and take pick. but i do think the competing narratives here, both get important things wrong. as democratic reaction as well we didn't find the kind of cartoonish conspiracy that matches some of the more extreme things trump has said. so it's total vindication for the fbi which is ridiculous. they have to be smoking something to come away with that conclusion of the report. but the impulse on the other side to force everything into the kind of pre-christian bed of political bias and political polarization, kind of ignores the potentially more disturbing problem. the problem here is fundamentally political bias because that's good news that's easy to fix. maybe there's a handful of bad actors that are mostly moved on or you can fire them. 99% of the phis applications don't have anything to do with domestic partisan politics. so this is a small problem. the way i read the report, the root prob

. >> welcome back for the 2019 cato surveillance conference, i am still julian sanchez and i'm pleased to welcome you for the afternoon seson

. >> welcome back for the 2019 cato surveillance conference, i am still julian sanchez and i'm pleased to welcome you for the afternoon session there is more fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of freedom technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and i'm happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] >> thank you and hello. i am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt.org. i want to talk about the applications of america first surveillance policy. when i say america first i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs ou

my name is julian sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here and i'm grateful to everyone who has come up bright and early for the hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for some five years now. when we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. and as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the intelligence community inspector general. we have forthcoming next week i'll breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings aired, actually would be from the house intelligence committees. even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of our political discourse in a way the intelligence agencies itself began to be earlier in this cycle in a i

my name is julian sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here, and i'm grateful to everyone who has come out bright and early to the cato auditorium for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for some five years now. when we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by foreman nsa contractor edward snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency, unfamiliar to most americans. and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by a report from the, from the intelligence community's inspector general. we have forthcoming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings aired in connection -- [inaudible] from the house intelligence committee. even intelligence overseers now are at the center, in a sense; of our political discourse in a way that the intelligence agencies themselves began to be ear

i remain senior fellow julian sanchez. thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. as i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this year's conference. this morning, you heard about an work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogen's collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the government accountability office to the intelligence committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the intelligence community is the privacy and civil liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished .oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. it is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the convers

i remain the senior fellow julian sanchez, thank you for joining us.as i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight this year's conference. this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection, ranging from at the fisacourt to the myriad inspectors general and the government accountability office and the spellen committee of the congress, and one of the newer and many ways publicly useful entities overseeing the intelligence community is the privacy and civil liberties oversight board, which is a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into some of the program's we hear suggestion, section 702 and 702.15 the authority used for the bulk records, phone records collection from. to introduce the members of the board and what i'm sure is a fascinating discussion, i'll hand off to our moderator, the washington college of law and american university. >> thank you. thank you all for being here and those who

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i remain senior fellow julian sanchez. thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. as i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this year's conference. this morning, you heard