IC ON THE RECORD

Release of a Summary of DOJ and ODNI Oversight of Section 702

August 11, 2016

Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is releasing an unclassified summary of DOJ’s and ODNI’s oversight of the Intelligence Community’s implementation of Section 702 (“Oversight Summary”).  The government submitted this oversight summary to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as part of its application for reauthorization of Section 702 certifications for 2015, which the FISC approved in its Nov. 6, 2015, Memorandum Opinion and Order (released, in redacted form, in April 2016 on IC on the Record).  This oversight summary details DOJ and ODNI’s extensive oversight of the IC’s implementation of Section 702.  Today’s release is being undertaken proactively, in keeping with the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community.

Section 702 refers to part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments of 2008, Section 702 (50 USC 1881a). This provision of FISA facilitates the acquisition of foreign intelligence information concerning non-U.S. persons located outside the United States, creating a new, more streamlined procedure to collect the communications of foreign terrorists.

View oversight summary.