Posted on 02/28/2023 5:41:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Biden administration is reportedly worried a 2008 spy law permitting warrantless wiretaps will not be renewed by Congress, as lawmakers on both the left and right have expressed privacy concerns.
With the law set to expire at the end of 2023, the administration “is so worried” about renewing the legislation that “it has begun the push to lobby for reauthorization 10 months before the law sunsets,” the Washington Post reported.
“Its value cannot be overstated,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said Tuesday at the Brookings Institution. “Without 702, we will lose indispensable intelligence for our decision-makers and warfighters, as well as those of our allies. And we have no fallback authority that could come close to making up for that loss.”
The law under Section 702 grants federal agencies the ability to wiretap Americans without probable cause in certain circumstances, according to the Post:
Section 702 allows the FBI and the National Security Agency to gather emails, text messages and other electronic data from U.S. tech firms like Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta without a traditional warrant based on probable cause when the target is a foreigner overseas and it’s for foreign intelligence purposes, such as counterterrorism, nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks.
The material gathered goes into a database and that surveillance is subject to oversight by a federal court, Congress, the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The FBI is granted access to only a portion of that database.
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As if it matters. We are in a surveillance state.
If we lose the ability to wiretap, then how are we supposed to ever finally get Trump?
We are in a surveillance state.
We are in a surveillance WORLD 🌎🌍.
But still I agree with what you were saying.
That darn 4th Amendment.......
So, Obamanation started warrantless wiretaps? Gee, no protection from the courts. Wonder why he wanted that?
So they lose the ability to ‘legally’ gather dirt on their political opponents, eh?
The issue isn’t the law itself.
It’s the abuse of the law and the fact that partisan hacks allowed the McCabes, Strzoks, Page’s, Baker’s, Brennan’s, Clapper’s, etc etc do what they wanted.
Petulant, spoiled children who are never held accountable and never will be.
I don’t really care about leviathan fedgov’s problems. I’d prefer they be about 5%the size they are now, basically the post office and military and FOAD everything else.
No, on any of us. Get out of line and see the things start happening to you.
How else will they know who to send to the extermination camps?
Ahh, setting up the theatrical background for the grueling debate where it passes unquestioned and expanded in scope.
And all those troublemaking parents!
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