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Congress is voting on whether to re-authorize FISA Section 702, which originated in the Patriot Act. Its re-authorization would allow the FBI to secretly spy on Americans without warrants. “I remember thinking all they have to do is just change the meaning of terrorist,” Glenn Beck says, recalli...

Congress is voting on whether to re-authorize FISA Section 702, which would allow the FBI to secretly spy on Americans without warrants. Glenn speaks to 3 congressmen who are leading the charge to prevent this. First, Rep. Chip Roy accuses House Speaker Mike Johnson of standing in the way of an amendment.

The House of Representatives recently voted for an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, which allows the warrantless surveillance of American citizens in certain cases. However, this wasn’t just a Democrat effort. 147 Republicans voted for the extension, along wi...

Congress passed a temporary extension of a powerful government surveillance program this past week, and now long-discussed plans among lawmakers to make fixes to it before the end of the year could be stalled for months or longer.

Lawmakers have vowed all year to reform a powerful government surveillance tool that is set to expire at the end of the month, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reached an agreement with congressional leaders this week that would table reforms well into next year.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on FISA 702 reauthorization, and it laid out the necessary reforms for the reauthorization of the program that is set to expire in just over one month.

Opposition research group hired by the clintons. we have to make sure somebody is watching and that there are checks and balances. >> bill: that was last hour. this is now. mike emanuel is live on the hill. rand paul thinks the amendment has a good chance of passing. where do things stand on the reauthorization of this critical intelligence tool? >> there is a lot of emotion about this issue being debated now on the house floor. those in the intelligence community, those who are pro national sec...

Agencies themselves whose office of general counsel, privacy and civil liberties offices and inspectors general all have a role in fisas 702 program oversight. the majority of the incidents of non-compliance that are reported to my office and to the department of justice are self-reported by the participating agencies. in addition, the office of the dni and the department of justice conduct regular audits, focusing on compliance with the targeting procedures as well as on querying a collected da...

Agencies themselves whose offices of general counsel, privacy and civil liberties offices and inspectors general all have a role in fisa 702 program oversight. the majority of the incidents of non-compliance reported to my office and to the department of justice are self-reported by the participating agencies. in addition, the office of the dni and department of justice conduct regular audits focusing on compliance with the targeting procedures as well as on querying of collected data and on dis...

Told them in part about russian efforts to interfere with the election. officials were asked what would be lost if this authority were watered down or eliminated? >> admiral rogers, this is to you: if fisa 702 statutory authorities were to end or even be diminished, what would be the impact on our national security? >> i could not generate the same level of insight that the nation, our friends and allies around the world count on with respect to counter terrorism and counter proliferation. >> th...