{"id":26244,"date":"2017-09-29T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26244"},"modified":"2017-09-29T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:46:16","slug":"trump-administration-lobbying-hard-for-sweeping-surveillance-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26244","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION<\/u> is pushing hard for\u00a0the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law \u2014 section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA \u2014 three months before it sunsets in December.<\/p>\n

To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, the Trump administration is holding\u00a0classified, members-only\u00a0briefings for the entire House and Senate next\u00a0Wednesday, with heavy hitters in attendance:\u00a0Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, NSA Director Mike Rogers, and FBI Director Christopher Wray will\u00a0give the briefings, according to an internal announcement of the meetings provided to The Intercept and confirmed by multiple sources on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

Section 702\u00a0serves as the legal basis for two of the NSA\u2019s largest mass surveillance programs, both revealed by Edward Snowden. One program, PRISM, allows the government to collect messaging\u00a0data sent to and from foreign targets, from major internet companies like\u00a0Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. The other, UPSTREAM,\u00a0scans internet backbone sites in the U.S.\u00a0and copies communications\u00a0to and from foreign targets.<\/p>\n

Both programs ostensibly only \u201ctarget\u201d foreigners, but likely collect massive amounts of Americans\u2019 communications as well. And despite persistent questioning from members of Congress, the Obama and Trump administrations have repeatedly refused<\/a> to provide an estimate of how many domestic communications the programs collect. Civil liberties advocates have long warned liberal defenders of the program under President Obama that\u00a0one day the surveillance apparatus may fall into the hands of a president with little regard for rule of law or constitutional protections.<\/p>\n

Privacy activists have also raised concerns about how the data is shared with law enforcement, and routinely used for purposes unrelated to national security. The FBI frequently conducts \u201cbackdoor searches\u201d on the data during ordinary criminal investigations, which allows them access to Americans\u2019 communications without having to get a warrant.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for\u00a0the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law \u2014 section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA \u2014 three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]<\/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":[12001,29,16225,16224,190,7844,249,1493,6056,13015,378,16223,6100,5292,551,577,1694,765,5567,8334],"class_list":["post-26244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alex-emmons","tag-apple","tag-christopher-wray","tag-dan-coats","tag-data","tag-donald-trump","tag-edward-snowden","tag-facebook","tag-fisa","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act","tag-google","tag-jess-sessions","tag-microsoft","tag-mike-rogers","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-prism","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept","tag-upstream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26244","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=26244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26245,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26244\/revisions\/26245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}