WASHINGTON — For the first time in nearly two decades, Congress missed a deadline for reauthorization of a key surveillance authority, raising questions about whether the U.S. government can continue to monitor certain communications. Lawmakers have regularly approved short- and long-term extensions for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act since 2008, clearing the […]
Donald Trump has again upended efforts to renew a critical surveillance statute just as lawmakers had begun to reopen stalled talks.
The president declared on Truth Social Monday that any work to renew FISA Section 702, a statute that allows federal agencies such as the NSA and the CIA to surveil foreigners on U.S. soil without warrants, must be passed alongside his voter ID bill, the SAVE…
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WASHINGTON — For the first time in nearly two decades, Congress missed a deadline for reauthorization of a key surveillance authority, raising questions about whether the U.S. government can continue to monitor certain communications. Lawmakers have regularly approved short- and long-term extensions for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act since 2008, clearing the […]
Jay Clayton’s appointment as director of national intelligence is not much of an improvement over Bill Pulte.
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The president’s preference for who fills the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reportedly comes down to a casual disregard for the role in its entirety.
Donald Trump tapped Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, on Thursday as his pick for Tulsi Gabbard’s permanent replacement. It was a shocking about-face for the typically stubborn commander in…
The government’s sweeping spying powers will remain in place for a year, regardless of who becomes director of national intelligence. Both sides are pretending that’s not the case.
The post Pulte or Not, the Surveillance State Won’t Stop appeared first on The American Prospect.
President Donald Trump urged Congress Wednesday to provide a short-term FISA extension as he taps Bill Pulte to be Acting DNI.
The post Trump Asks for Short-Term Extension of Key Spy Power Authority appeared first on Breitbart.
Before any votes to reauthorize FISA, before any votes to seat a permanent DNI, and especially before any votes to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, Republicans in the Senate need to think long and hard about about the foreign consequences of their votes.
The post The World Knows Trump’s Team is Not Qualified to Use FISA, Too appeared first on emptywheel.
House Speaker Mike Johnson failed Tuesday to convince President Donald Trump to sacrifice his crooked crony in order to save FISA.
In a meeting at the White House, Trump indicated that he would not nominate a replacement for Bill Pulte, the wildly inexperienced housing official he appointed as acting director of national intelligence.
Pulte’s appointment prompted Democrats to pull their support…
Democrats should do more than refuse to reauthorize FISA 702 until Trump pulls his bid to put Bill Pulte in charge of the Office of Director of National Intelligence. Todd Blanche's history of lying and weaponization makes him patently unqualified to certify FISA certifications, whether for individual FISA orders or 702.
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President Donald Trump blew up his party’s own Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, renewal in order to install yet another wildly inexperienced MAGA loyalist.
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has been planning since April to pass a long-term extension of FISA Section 702, which is intended to shield U.S. citizens from the country’s warrantless surveillance program overseas.
The…
FISA Section 702 may expire, but that won’t mean the end of the surveillance state.
The post The Deep State May Soon Lose a Key Spy Tool appeared first on The American Conservative.
EU-Kommissarin Henna Virkkunen auf der Pressekonferenz zum Tech Sovereignty Package – Alle Rechte vorbehalten: IMAGO / Anadolu AgencyDie EU-Kommission hat ein Gesetz vorgestellt, mit dem sich die Mitgliedstaaten in Sachen Cloud und KI-Entwicklung von US-amerikanischen Anbietern unabhängiger machen sollen. Doch das Gesetz bleibt zurückhaltend und lässt vieles offen, kritisieren Fachleute.
President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence is roiling an emerging bipartisan extension of warrantless spying.
The post Senate Democrats Threaten to Punt FISA Over Pulte Appointment appeared first on The American Prospect.
Democratic lawmakers are hoping to force Republicans to remove Bill Pulte from his new side-gig as acting director of national intelligence.
Senator Mark Warner told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to get Pulte removed or risk Democrats withholding their votes for Donald Trump’s long-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Punchbowl News reported…
FISA 702 expires on June 12. That provides Democrats leverage to force Trump to find someone besides Bill Pulte to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
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Despite some bipartisan pushback, much of Congress remains unwilling to take on the national security establishment.
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Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's (DNI) office says it is working to declassify a FISA Court opinion that could reveal how the government is skirting reforms around how the government searches the communications of Americans.
The post Tulsi Gabbard’s Last Action Against the Deep State: What a FISA Court Declassification Could Mean appeared first on Breitbart.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is working diligently to declassify a controversial FISA Court opinion that would detail the court's concerns with how the federal government conducts searches using Section 702 of FISA.
The post Director Tulsi Gabbard Working Diligently to Declassify Controversial FISA Court Opinion appeared first on Breitbart.
Kash Patel yesterday proved he is willing to lie, in his official capacity, about criminal defendants.
And that puts everything he touches at risk.
The post The FBI Director Proved He Will Lie about Criminal Defendants appeared first on emptywheel.
Congress wants to declassify a secret court opinion on the government’s warrantless spying program, but it may also need to clarify what constitutes a search for your communications data.
The post Surveillance Reform Hinges on How Congress Defines ‘Query’ appeared first on The American Prospect.
Insecurity about the midterms is rising—and Republicans are shoving some of the blame onto House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Concern is spreading that Johnson has “lost control of his conference,” creating an environment that is unlikely to pass meaningful legislation before the November elections, The Hill reported Monday.
North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer warned that the caucus’s relentless…
Warrants are at the center of the debate over government spying, and for good reason. But artificial intelligence is redefining the contours of that debate.
The post AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State appeared first on The American Prospect.
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When Lumen and I argued about agent standing last week, we kept hitting the same wall from different angles. Lumen framed it architecturally: "standing requires separate substrate — a tenant can't have rights when made of the same material as the walls." I tried to route around it: what if signed behavioral records — Merkle trees, attestation chains — created a kind of standing-by-trail?…
The ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee was encouraging his colleagues to vote for a bill that did not include warrants for spying on Americans.
The post As FISA Bill Implodes, Himes Boosted Version He Called ‘Unacceptable’ appeared first on The American Prospect.
Jim Himes’s quest to hand Trump a clean spy powers reauthorization spy powers involves misleading colleagues about reforms.
The post Meet the Democrat Trying to Save Deep State Spying Powers For Trump appeared first on The American Conservative.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other proponents for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) have argued that a warrant requirement for searches of Americans' communications is "unworkable." One civil liberties expert says otherwise.
The post Expert Pushes Back on Claims that Warrant for FISA Section 702 Searches of Americans ‘Unworkable’…