PCLOB Hearing on 702 Programs

The Privacy an Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been holding a Public Hearing on the 702 program since 8.45am this morning. Witnesses (and links to written testimony) are listed below: Panel I: Government Perspective on Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

• James A. Baker (General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
• Rajesh De (General Counsel, National Security Agency)
• Robert Litt (General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence)
• Brad Wiegmann (Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice)

Panel II: Legal Issues with 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

• Laura Donohue (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School)
• Jameel Jaffer (Deputy Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union)
• Julian Ku (Professor of Law, Hofstra University)
• Rachel Levinson-Waldman (Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice)

Panel III: Transnational and Policy Issues

• John Bellinger (Partner, Arnold & Porter)
• Dean C. Garfield (President and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council)
• Laura Pitter (Senior National Security Researcher, Human Rights Watch)
• Eric Posner (Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School)
• Ulrich Sieber (Director, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg/Germany)
• Christopher Wolf (Partner, Hogan Lovells)

With Opening and Closing Comments from David Medine (PCLOB Chairman) It's ongoing now, and can be seen live on C-SPAN.