Congress Faces Deadline on FISA Section 702 as Bipartisan Opposition Grows Over Unqualified Intelligence Pick
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Summary
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals but also sweeps up Americans' data, is set to expire unless Congress reauthorizes it. A bipartisan group of senators is opposing reauthorization due to President Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte—a MAGA loyalist with no intelligence background—as acting director of national intelligence. Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director Cindy Cohn argues that the post-9/11 national security surveillance state threatens freedom and that this moment presents an opportunity to demand stronger privacy protections.
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It's time to take a look and listen hard about the privacy protections that are needed, at a minimum, for this program to go forward.
The massive national security surveillance state that was built after 9/11 has always been a threat to freedom.
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