The intelligence community won an expansion of snooping powers from Congress, but opponents cut the authority to two years, meaning Capitol Hill will revisit the fight much sooner than anticipated. President Biden signed the expansion into law Saturday, capping an intense six-month fight over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the […]
A bill reauthorizing the government’s chief spying tool is on its way to the Senate after House lawmakers on Monday swatted down a last-ditch bid to block it. A group of GOP lawmakers attempted to torpedo the re-upping of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s warrantless spying power with a vote to reconsider the bill’s passage […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson is circulating a fact sheet demonstrating how changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act would prevent another Russia hoax, hoping to cajole GOP troops who are thwarting efforts to reauthorize the government’s chief spying tool. Former President Donald Trump is urging GOP allies to reject the FISA bill, complicating the speaker’s […]
The House on Friday advanced a bill to renew the government’s chief spying powers, recovering from a major hiccup earlier in the week when Republicans tanked the legislation. A vote is expected later in the day to pass the reauthorization of the hotly-debated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 which allows the U.S. to collect […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, took a swipe at national security hawks over their insistence that the government’s top spying tool be reauthorized without a warrant requirement. “The same people who spied on President Trump’s campaign are now fighting against a warrant requirement in the new FISA bill,” Mr. Jordan said in […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson told lawmakers in a “dear colleague” letter that he would bring a bill to the floor that reauthorizes the government’s most powerful spying tool, pushing them to get behind the bill that overhauls the law but does not rein in warrantless surveillance of electronic communication abroad that sometimes snares Americans. He […]
The battle is heated over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA law that allows essentially warrantless wiretapping on non-U.S. citizens by American intelligence and the FBI. The law expanded U.S. surveillance capabilities in the post-9/11 era and spy agencies it’s invaluable. But civil liberty advocates have long been critical, because U.S. […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been pressuring the Intelligence and Judiciary committees to stop butting heads and quickly meld their competing bills to rewrite the government’s most powerful spy power, the Washington Times has learned. The speaker is forcing the rival GOP factions — Judiciary’s federal weaponization watchdogs and Intel’s national security hawks — to […]
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