Why Arizona's far-right and far-left Congress members are wary of renewing a spy program
Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and Raúl Grijalva oppose renewing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without amending it.
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Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and Raúl Grijalva oppose renewing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without amending it.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is taking heat from the hard-right conservative wing of his conference over the addition of a short-term extension of the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers in the Defense authorization bill. Johnson huddled with a slew of animated GOP lawmakers — many of whom had long given his ousted predecessor headaches — on…
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the U.S. government to collect data without a warrant.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress, saying that he has never seen so many elevated terror-related threats all at the same time.
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said he fears a lapse in the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers as Congress struggles to settle on a proposal or a pathway to reauthorize them ahead of an end-of-the-year expiration. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the…