Intelligence Officials Push Back in Senate Hearing Against Transparency Measures

摘要

Intelligence community officials argued that enhanced disclosure requirements in the Surveillance TransparencyrnAct would be an extraordinary and a privacy-damaging burden, testifying at a Senate Judiciary subcommitteernhearing Wednesday, while privacy advocates and tech industry representatives countered that more transparencyrnwas a necessary first step to ensure economic competitiveness and protect civil liberties. Privacy SubcommitteernChairman Al Franken, D-Minn., called the hearing to discuss the bill (http://1.usa.gov/1aEn0bH),rnwhich he introduced with Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., two weeks ago (CD Oct 31 p9).