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Many Democratic and Republican lawmakers say they won’t vote to renew Section 702 when it expires at the end of the year without major changes.

Then-Rep. Ted Budd voted no on renewing the law that governs U.S. monitoring of foreign nationals. Now a senator, he and other NC lawmakers will have to decide where they stand.

“Why would we reauthorize it given your track record of abuse and illegal improper surveillance and political targeting,” Hawley said, referencing the FBI’s use of spying tools on its own citizens.

The U.S. senator is joining fellow lawmakers who have raised concerns that the surveillance program could run afoul of Americans’ civil liberties

American spies are quietly on the frontlines of a global battle against fentanyl. Yet a tool the CIA says is critical to their fight is at risk in Congress this fall.

The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) has recommended that Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) should be reauthorized upon its expiry by the end of this year.

The new violations come as the Biden administration faces a difficult battle over renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires at the end of this year.

The FBI was able to “detect and thwart" Chinese hackers trying to access U.S. infrastructure, as well as malign threats from other adversaries, under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday in a letter to Congress defending the law.

Republicans in the United States House of Representatives, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), are pushing to abolish a controversial surveillance program that was enacted by Congress in 2008 as a post-9/11 national security measure. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) must be reauthorized by the end of the year in order […]

Agencies have less than six months to convince a divided Congress to re-up an expiring warrantless surveillance authority.