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Why 702 is America’s most valuable intelligence program: Interview with the FBI
Sep 7, 2023
Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of FBI's Cyber Division, discusses the importance and successes of FISA Section 702, such as disrupting assassination plots and recovering ransom from the Colonial Pipeline hack. The podcast also covers compliance issues with the program and the FBI's efforts to address them. Other topics include the use of 702 to uncover terrorist plots and rescue kidnapped Americans, the use of batch jobs for IP address search, and the challenges of combating blended threats in cybersecurity.
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- FISA Section 702 is the US government's most valuable intelligence program, responsible for collecting the majority of high-level intelligence and aiding in countering cyber threats originating outside the US.
- The FBI has implemented reforms to address compliance issues with the 702 program, such as opt-in standards and batch query approval, aiming for 100% compliance and enforcing accountability measures.
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In this podcast episode, Dimitra Parrish, Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, interviews Brian Wargen, Assistant Director of the Cyber Division of the FBI, to discuss the Intelligence Collection Program called 702. They highlight the importance of the program in improving the collection capabilities of the intelligence community post-9/11, particularly on foreign terrorists and threat actors. They emphasize that the program collects communications of foreign persons located outside the United States and is only used against foreign targets of intelligence or surveillance. They also discuss the program's role in countering cybersecurity threats, protecting national security, and its significance in the broader intelligence community.
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