Senate Majority Leader John Thune made it clear on Monday that Senate Republicans are moving ahead with plans to revive Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is the law that governs how the U.S. spies on foreign targets, even if it means defying President Donald Trump.
During this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) explained that while efforts to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will require a 60-vote majority in the U.S. Senate, the so-called SAVE America Act could come through another round of reconciliation.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” The Atlantic Staff Writer David Brooks stated that while he thinks that Bill Pulte should not have been named acting Director of National Intelligence, Democrats who are refusing to extend the FISA program are doing so
President Donald Trump urged Congress Wednesday to provide a short-term FISA extension as he taps Bill Pulte to be Acting DNI.
Conservatives continued to press for reforms during the latest negotiations to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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.
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.
Congress punted the fight to reauthorize a key spy powers fight for more six weeks as privacy advocates see another opportunity to reform the controversial surveillance law.
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 House has to grapple a number of tasks including the reauthorization of FISA, funding ICE and Border Patrol, pass a Farm bill, and potentially even find a way to fund the White House ballroom renovation.
The House has to grapple with a number of tasks, including reauthorizing FISA, funding ICE and Border Patrol, and passing a farm bill.
House Freedom Caucus lawmakers have offered amendments that would bar intelligence agencies from searching Americans’ communications and prevent the creation of a central bank digital, which Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) has described as the “ultimate surveillance tool.”
House Republican leadership on Thursday unveiled its latest proposal to extend a key spy powers authority that does not contain many of the demands listed by conservatives to reform Section 702 of FISA.
The Founders required the government to ask permission before searching for your effects. They wrote it down. One week is enough time to honor that — if Congress actually wants to.
Congress passed a short-term extension of a key government surveillance authority after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) failed to ram through a clean extension of Section 702 of FISA over the interests of bipartisan lawmakers who want to reform the spy power.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Republicans to pass a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA without reforms, saying he would be willing to give up his “rights” for the program.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) on Tuesday said he would introduce an amendment to a bill to reauthorize a key spy powers authority to prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from purchasing Americans’ data through third-party data brokers.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Monday wrote to National Security Agency (NSA) Director Joshua Rudd about multiple instances of “deeply troubling abuses of power” by NSA analysts who have misused Section 702 of FISA to search private communications, including a person met through a dating service and a potential tenant.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) told Breitbart News the only way she would accept a clean extension of Section 702 of FISA is if the SAVE America Act were attached to the legislation, arguing that “voter ID is national security.”
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm of the prospect of the federal government purchasing Americans’ private data through third-party data brokers.
House Republican leaders will move a planned vote on a controversial surveillance plan to April after many conservatives balked at the idea of extending the surveillance authority without more reform, according to a report.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday laid out his case for why Congress needs to embrace a short and clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Authority (FISA), a key surveillance authority.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Thursday unveiled the ‘Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act,’ a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of FISA while protecting Americans’ civil liberties.
Sens. Mike Lee and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation Monday that would protect Americans from warrantless government surveillance.
Attorney General Pam Bondi told Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Wednesday that the Trump administration is committed to working with Congress to end warrantless surveillance of Americans.
The House Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Thursday, November 11.
After years of fighting to protect our constitutional rights against the surveillance state, I was still shocked, though perhaps not surprised, to learn that Special Counsel Jack Smith misused grand jury subpoenas to spy on nine Republican members of Congress.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Wednesday proposed legislation to eliminate the intelligence community’s surveillance tools that “erode” Americans’ civil liberties.
The Obama-appointed federal judge who ruled against President Donald Trump’s deportations of suspected Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members played a key role in the failed Russia-Trump collusion accusations while presiding over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Thursday named a new chairman and new lawmakers to the House Intelligence Committee after President-elect Donald Trump had concerns about the former pro-Ukraine, pro-surveillance chairman.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has removed Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) from the chairmanship of the House’s intelligence committee, reportedly due to concerns President-elect Donald Trump had about Turner.
House Republican leadership is blocking a proposal to narrow a controversial provision that grants intelligence agencies the power to spy on a vast number of American businesses to help the government.
The House Republican Conference on Wednesday nominated Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to continue serving as the leader of the House.
Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX) on Wednesday were selected to serve on the House Intelligence Committee.
Former West Virginia State Rep. Derrick Evans said that Rep. Carol Miller brought Bill Gates to the state to roll out his “globalist agenda.”
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) on Monday tacitly admitted that there are concerns that need to be fixed about a controversial aspect of a recent spy powers reauthorization bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) committed “three betrayals” to lead to the upcoming vote to eject him from the speakership, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said Wednesday.
Speaker Mike Johnson earned the endorsement of House Democrat Leadership Tuesday. He will need to cash in on that endorsement only days later.
Thirty Senate Republicans, on Friday night, voted to continue warrantless surveillance and even expand the FBI’s surveillance authority.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Thursday said he introduced an amendment to end an FBI “power grab” in a spy powers bill that is meant to rein in government surveillance abuse.
The House on Wednesday passed legislation to ban the government from purchasing Americans’ private data from data brokers, which is considered a run around the Fourth Amendment.
