Foreign Intelligence Act News Today

"Speaker Mike Johnson is eyeing a floor vote on a revised spy powers bill next week," Politico reports."The move would almost certainly renew lingering tensions within the House GOP over what to do about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Act, after deep divisions forced Republicans to punt

The State Department's Brett Holmgren writes that allowing a key surveillance tool to expire "would severely inhibit a range of important U.S. diplomatic functions."

Politicians and activists reacted with dismay upon the news that the FBI illegally tapped into foreign intelligence data looking for dirt on U.S. citizens. But given this news emerged just days after the release of the Durham report, which fingered the FBI as knee-deep in the bogus Russian collusion narrative that dominated Beltway politics during the Trump years, the outrage and surprise seem underwhelming.

The Durham report reveals an FBI so steeped in politics that it violated its own standards to embark on a full-blown investigation of the Trump White House on the basis of a bogus dossier with little basis in reality.

Durham report reveals an agency so steeped in politics that it violated its own standards

From the editorial: FBI officials maintain that all these errors — made during the Trump investigation or while illegally snooping under Section 702 — have been addressed and “corrective” action has been taken. It would be nice to believe so.

Politicians and activists reacted with dismay last week upon the news that the FBI illegally tapped into foreign intelligence data looking for dirt on U.S. citizens. But given this news

Durham report reveals an agency so steeped in politics that it violated its own standards

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Illegally spying on Americans and a politically motivated investigation.