Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, I appreciate my friend the gentleman from Utah's strong feelings on this bill. He has been consistent repeatedly. I disagree. I believe 702 is one of the critical aspects of our national security regime. Literally 60 percent of the information that appears in the President's Daily Brief is obtained from section 702. Again, I disagree with the gentleman as well in terms of the fact that we have seen--prior to 2008, when the preceding bill expired for a brief period of time, there are entities that said: We no longer have to participate with the government. I think that is a risk we cannot afford to take with the vast array of challenges our Nation faces around the world. I would also point out--and I know that for some of my colleagues, it has not been enough--the Senate FISA bill--the House FISA bill has 56 separate reforms in it. As a matter of fact, through processes that are already at least partially in process, we have seen the FBI's noncompliance rate on their own queries of 702 drop from about 30 percent noncompliant to less than 1 percent. We have reforms that make sure there are no further batch queries; that there is not the kind of effort where people could simply have the right to query the 702 database without showing a reason; making sure as well, as critics have pointed out, that should an American who is an elected official, a religious figure, a journalist--a whole extra set of reforms there as well.…”