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Posted on 04/15/2026 6:12:19 PM PDT by T Ruth
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2026 – A federal authority that allows U.S. intelligence officials to spy on the communications of foreign nationals is set to expire April 20.
Lawmakers remain divided over whether, and how, to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect communications from non-U.S. persons located abroad, often with the assistance of American telecom and technology companies.
Nearly a dozen House Republicans have opposed a clean extension of the law, with some calling for stricter warrant requirements before agencies can access Americans’ data. American’s emails, texts, or calls can be legally collected under the program, when communicating with a foreign target.
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“While originally enacted as a temporary counterterrorism authority, government agencies have increasingly used Section 702 in a much wider set of contexts, including counternarcotics and cybersecurity. Section 702 has also become a tool for domestic surveillance,” advocates at the Electronic Privacy Information Center have argued.
House Speaker Mike Johnson in March advocated for passing a clean, 18-month extension of the surveillance authority without any changes. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Democrats are likely to oppose the current proposal.
Meanwhile, lawmakers have introduced several competing bills that would overhaul the program in different ways, including the Government Surveillance Reform Act, the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, and the Security and Freedom Enhancement Act.
Still, others have pushed to attach unrelated measures, like the SAVE Act, to any renewal bill.
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If the target is a Republican or a Trump ally, the D.C. courts will rubber-stamp any warrant request. On the other hand, if Congress tightens the requirements, it will give the D.C. Courts extra cover in denying warrant requests when the target is a member of the deep state.
Don’t fret, it’ll get renewed.
Should only renew it if their mission is to track down and kill all of the spam telephone callers.
The republicans will not allow the conservatives to put a stop to this.
It will continue.
Anybody who trusts .gov is a fool.
April 20 is Hitler’s birthday, IIRC.
Hakeem Jeffries and the demoncrats illegally spy on and fabricate information on everyone else, but don’t want anyone to know ANYTHING about what they and their deranged pawns and illegals are doing.
Is the Chuckles shutdown still going on?
The Big Brother surveillance state WILL continue on.
To important to fail sort of stuff.
The IC does a great job at selling how they need this.
If we had any sort of real principles, it should have never even come to exist!
When we have “republicans”
Against stuff like this, we’re screwed!
WTF is the matter w some “republicans”??
I for one feel safer already.
Devin Nunes exposed himself as a duplicitous @sshole back when he was the chair and ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. He’d spend every Sunday on the TV news shows complaining about FISA abuse, then go back to Congress during the week and push to get the stupid thing renewed.
“The republicans will not allow the conservatives to put a stop to this.
It will continue.”
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It will continue because Trump wants it and finds it useful.
One more reason he shouldn’t be in office
Wanna guess who is fighting it?
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