Adam Schiff: “it is a regrettable fact that at the beginning of the 21st century there are a great many people in the world whose…”

“it is a regrettable fact that at the beginning of the 21st century there are a great many people in the world whose primary motive in life is to seek to harm or kill Americans. Our country faces a real threat, and it must be addressed. As we fight this threat, Americans need to know two things. First, that we will use every tool we have necessary to stop the people that would hurt this country, that we will do everything possible to find them, to capture them, to kill them, if necessary. We will surveil them, we will listen to their calls and their e-mails, and we will do everything in our power to protect this country. Second, Americans need to know that if you are a law-abiding citizen and you are not a terrorist or supporting terrorists that we will respect your privacy. We will not listen to your calls when we do not have a business to, and we will not read your e-mails when we have no business to. Under the Schiff-Flake motion to recommit, we modernize FISA. We give the government the time, the flexibility it needs. We fix the problem of foreigners talking to foreigners in calls that go through the United States. In short, we do everything that the NSA and the Justice Department has asked us to do. The base bill, by contrast, excludes whole categories of surveillance, including the surveillance of Americans on American soil from court review. The base bill can be summarized as follows: Trust us. We are from the government.…”