A protester wears a T-shirt disparaging U.S. spy agency the National Security Agency (NSA) outside the "Dagger Complex", which is used by the U.S. Army intelligence services, during a demonstration against the NSA and in support of U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden in Griesheim (REUTERS/ Kai Pfaffenbach).

Testimony

Legislative Changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

September 26, 2013, Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Thursday September 26, 2013. Wittes describes the major opportunities that now exist for—as President Obama put it—greater transparency, enhanced oversight, and additional constraint on intelligence collection under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the wake of the unauthorized disclosures this summer by Edward Snowden and the material declassified by the Executive Branch in response.

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