The Chairman of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has, perhaps unwisely, invited me to provide written input on ways to reform the country’s intelligence collection authorities. I have commented publicly on the topic many times since my tenure as general counsel of the National Security Agency in the early 1990s. Because recent commentators have failed to address the most pressing need for intelligence reform, I am grateful for the opportunity to do so again. I am posting my testimony here, in advance of the PCLOB's publication so that readers of my shorter piece on the same topic will have the benefit of the more detailed analysis and sourcing in the full testimony.
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