Guest Speaker: Section 702 for Dummies, 4 p.m. EST

Become part of the .001% of the population that actually understands what the current FISA debate is about!

Section 702 of FISA is an electronic surveillance tool that is set to expire at the end of this month unless Congress decides to renew it. As I write this, FBI Director Christopher Wray is testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and just told the senators that allowing this surveillance authority to expire would be a form of “unilateral disarmament.”

Why is this tool so important? Why is the FBI talking about something that is collected by NSA? What are the privacy and civil liberties issues that are at the center of the debate?

This afternoon, George Croner, former principal litigation counsel at NSA and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, will break down what 702 is, what it isn’t, how it works, and why there is so much confusion about this surveillance tool. I invite George up to Yale to speak to my National Security Law class each spring, and there is literally no one better to explain the context, evolution, and stakes of this critical intelligence authority. I hope you will join this talk and become better informed on a topic that is sure to be covered frequently in the news in the coming weeks!

Please use the following Zoom link to join in at 4 p.m. EST (if you are unable to make it, the talk will be recorded and post for paid subscribers tomorrow):