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Trump Administration Urges Congress To Renew Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urging Congress to \u201cpromptly\u201d reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) scheduled to expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats also\u00a0signed the letter<\/a>, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.<\/p>\n

Section 702 of FISA \u201callows the Intelligence Community, under a robust regime of oversight by all three branches of government, to collect vital information about international terrorists, cyber actors, individuals and entities engaged in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other important foreign intelligence targets located outside the United States,\u201d Sessions and Coats wrote.<\/p>\n

They added: \u201cReauthorizing this critical authority is the top legislative priority of the Department of Justice and the Intelligence Community. As publicly reported by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, information collected under one particular section of FAA, Section 702, produces significant foreign intelligence that is vital to protect the nation against international terrorism and other threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

FISA was enacted<\/a> in 1978 as a response to illegal domestic surveillance operations revealed by two Senate committees in the 1970s, including President Richard Nixon\u2019s use of federal intelligence agencies to monitor his political opponents. It was brought into law\u00a0\u201cto authorize electronic surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence information.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law requires the government to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before setting up an electronic or physical wiretap targeted at foreigners and foreign agents.<\/p>\n

Congress amended FISA\u00a0in 2007<\/a>\u00a0to let the government wiretap communications that either begin or end outside the United States jurisdiction without Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) approval; in a stronger\u00a0 2008 overhaul<\/a>, they further limited that power to non-U.S. persons. The last reauthorization of the act was\u00a0in 2012<\/a>, which set the current expiration date of Dec. 31, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Trump Administration Urges Congress To Renew Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urging Congress to \u201cpromptly\u201d reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) scheduled to expire at the end of this year. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats also\u00a0signed the letter, addressed to House Speaker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15972,7844,6056,13015,765,1796,864],"class_list":["post-25538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aaron-kesel","tag-donald-trump","tag-fisa","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act","tag-surveillance","tag-us-congress","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25540,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538\/revisions\/25540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}