[国会记录：2011年8月2日（参议院）] [第S5239-S5240]情报授权维登先生。主席先生，我想简单的地址S. 1458，2012财年情报授权法案，现已被报道在智力专责委员会。我知道，该委员会的主席和副主席，参议员范士丹和参议员钱布利斯，用他们各自的工作人员一起，对这个法案努力工作，我支持它几乎每一个条款。但是，我坚决的决定，包括在该法案2008年的FISA修正法案的3年延长不同意，这是我打算对象的任何请求通过一致同意通过这一法案。用我自己的政策和参议院的规则相一致，我被放置在通知国会纪录宣布我的意向对象。由于大部分同事还记得，国会通过了FISA修正法案于2008年，努力将给予政府新的当局在美国以外的外国人进行监视。该法案包含2012年12月的到期日，这有效期限的目的是迫使国会议员回来在短短几年内，并检查这些新当局是否已解释和预期的实现。我相信国会尚未充分研究这个问题，并认为有需要向FISA修正法案赋予了长期的分机号之前回答的重要问题。在FISA修正案的中央部分法案，也就是现在的外国情报监视法案本身的部分702的一部分，具体说，它打算在美国以外地址的外国人，它甚至要求司法部长制定旨在程序确保有针对性的这个新的权力的任何个人被认为是在美国以外。 So one of the central questions that Congress needs to ask is, Are these procedures working as intended? Are they keeping the communications of law-abiding Americans from being swept up under this authority that was designed to apply to foreigners? I wanted to know the answer to this question, so Senator Udall of Colorado and I wrote to the Director of National Intelligence if it was possible to count or estimate the number of people inside [[Page S5240]] the United States whose communications had been reviewed under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. The response we got was prompt and candid. The response said ``it is not reasonably possible to identify the number of people located in the United States whose communications may have been reviewed under the authority'' of the FISA Amendments Act. I should be clear that I do not plan to accept this response as a final answer. I understand that it may be difficult to come up with an exact count of the number of people in the United States whose communications have been reviewed, but I believe Congress at least needs to obtain an estimate of this number so that people can understand the actual impact of the FISA Amendments Act on the privacy of law-abiding Americans. During the markup of the intelligence authorization bill, Senator Udall of Colorado and I proposed an amendment that would have directed the inspector general of the Department of Justice to review the implementation of the FISA Amendments Act and attempt to estimate how many people inside the United States have had their communications reviewed under this law since it was passed 3 years ago. Our amendment also would have directed the inspector general to examine other important aspects of the FISA Amendments Act, including the problem of recurring compliance violations, and report back to Congress within 1 year. I regret that the amendment that Senator Udall of Colorado and I offered was not adopted, but I obviously plan to keep trying to get more information about the effects of this law. I hope that I will find out that no law-abiding Americans, or at least very few, have had their communications reviewed by government agencies as a result of this law, but I believe that I have a responsibility to get concrete facts rather than just hope that this is not the case. And I believe that it would be not be responsible for the Senate to pass a multiyear extension of the FISA Amendments Act until I and others who have concerns have had our questions answered. I look forward to working with my colleagues to amend this bill, and I am hopeful that they will be willing to modify it to address the concerns I have raised. In the meantime, I should be clear that it is my intention to object to any request to pass the current version of S. 1458 by unanimous consent. ____________________