The House Judiciary Committee scheduled its surveillance hearing...
The House Judiciary Committee scheduled its surveillance hearing for Tuesday at 10 a.m., said the committee’s website (http://1.usa.gov/1fx7noR). The hearing’s title is “Examining Recommendations to Reform [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] Authorities.” Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has repeatedly asserted his committee’s…
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primary jurisdiction over FISA matters, and in late January said this hearing’s goal will be “to review the various recommendations recently made by President [Barack] Obama, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.” The committee is also reviewing several pieces of legislation that would update surveillance law, including the USA Freedom Act. A committee spokeswoman confirmed witnesses were finalized as of Wednesday afternoon. They will testify in two panels. First will be Deputy Attorney General James Cole, presidential review group member Peter Swire and PCLOB Chairman David Medine. Second will be Dechert’s Steven Bradbury, Dean Garfield of the Information Technology Industry Council and the Georgetown University Law Center’s David Cole.