Without intervention by Congress, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 2008 will expire at the end of this year. The White House is pushing hard for renewal, of course, but an odd bipartisan coalition in Congress is holding up the process and demanding changes first. They particularly object to elements of Section 702 that have frequently been abused by the FBI and the intelligence community to collect information on American citizens without a warrant. That’s a completely valid complaint, but nobody in Congress has put forward a coherent plan to change the law and provide additional protections for citizens in that manner while still being acceptable to the administration. But the clock is ticking and Congress already has a lot of work to get done.Read More
Time to Let Section 702 Die?
