In response to questions from lawmakers about possible surveillance of Americans, McConnell and Wainstein both stated flatly that the Protect America Act doesn’t remove robust “minimization” procedures for handling information collected on U.S. persons in the course of a foreign intelligence information. For instance, names of U.S. persons — citizens and non-citizens — collected in the course of a foreign-foreign warrantless surveillance investigation have to be blacked out and removed from reports based on that collected intelligence.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179846