This powerful intelligence tool allows for warrantless surveillance of private phone calls, text messages and emails of hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals outside the United States. There is no authority in this law for surveillance, direct surveillance on American citizens. But Americans are being swept up in the efforts under 702 and have been for years. Section 702 can yield valuable foreign intelligence and even prevent terrorist attacks. (00:25–00:34)
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Asserts that Section 702 does not authorize direct surveillance of American citizens.
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