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Congress Prepares To Reauthorize a Warrantless Domestic Spying Program the FBI Abused

Competing FISA Section 702 reauthorization bills will reach the House floor next week, Speaker Johnson says.

Reason

Lawmakers Try To Insert Privacy Protections Into the Feds' Snooping Powers

The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.

Reason

The President's Civil Liberties Oversight Board's report on section 702 of FISA

The board agrees it should be renewed but splits three ways on proposals for reform

Reason

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Conservative catfight over section 702 of FISA

The fight over renewing section 702 of FISA has highlighted a split among conservatives. Former Rep. Bob Goodlatte and Matthew Silver have attacked me and Michael Ellis by name over the issue in recent op-eds. The issue is whether conservatives should join the left in demanding court orders based on…

Reason

FBI Made 'Inappropriate Use' of Foreign Surveillance Program To Spy on Americans

A White House panel says the FBI's internal control over Section 702 databases are "insufficient to ensure compliance and earn the public's trust."

Reason

Progressives in unlikely position as Republicans escalate attacks on FBI

Some Democrats wonder if cross-aisle push to include privacy protections into reauthorization of Fisa is now possible

The Guardian - US

We Still Don't Know the Full Extent of the Government's Warrantless Electronic Spying Program

The reauthorization of Section 702 is one of the most important issues facing Congress in the second half of this year.

Reason

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Biden's Flip-Flop on Warrantless Surveillance

Plus: Montanans challenge ban on drag story hour, Arizona approves birth control without a prescription, and more...

Reason

Senate panel to question agencies on key foreign surveillance tool - Roll Call

Lawmakers of both parties are using the expiration of the law known as FISA this year as a leverage point to demand changes.

Roll Call

Editorial: The bad news just keeps coming for the FBI

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 emerged just days after the release of the Durham report, which fingered the FBI as knee-deep in the bogus Russian…

Tribune News Service

The Durham Report Is Right About the Need for More FBI Oversight

The FBI's sloppy, secret search warrants should be a concern for all Americans.

Reason

Peter Spurrier obituary

Photographer who captured many significant moments in rowing, including Redgrave and Pinsent’s handshake at the 1996 Olympics

The Guardian - UK

Why CISOs should support renewal of FISA's section 702

Because it's a good new cybersecurity tool

Reason

Congress starts work on renewal of controversial surveillance law - Roll Call

Justice Department and intelligence officials face a skeptical Congress as they push to renew a contentious surveillance law.

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TikTok ban: "Patriot Act on steroids"

Gen Z, progressives and libertarians can all agree on one thing: Bipartisan effort to ban TikTok is "garbage"

WEKU

In fight over key surveillance law, officials look to sway congressional skeptics

A fight looms over warrantless collection of communication of foreigners overseas.

Reason

Vicious Cycle

How Press Bias Fed FISA Abuse in the Trump-Russia Panic

Salon

Big Brother vs Big Tech

Biden wants more chips; Democrats claim they'll protect your health data. Plus: A drone that kills on its own?

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Biden administration urges Congress to renew warrantless surveillance law

Section 702 cast as an essential tool to gather intelligence about terrorists and other foreign targets located overseas

Tribune News Service

Campaign to renew US spy powers faces bitter battle in Congress

The U.S. intelligence community faces a hard battle to renew foreign surveillance powers that have enabled authorities to repeatedly access private information about Americans despite constitutional protections.

Axios

Trump's special master jam

What initially looked like a legal victory for Trump isn't panning out the way he had hoped.

The Independent UK

Who is Raymond Dearie, the Brooklyn judge Trump wants as ‘special master’ in secret papers case?

‘DoJ would be wise to agree to Judge Dearie’, Andrew Weissmann, one of Trump’s harshest critics, says

The Independent UK

EXCERPT: Jill Biden, into the public arena

The following excerpt is from “Jill: A Biography of the First Lady,” by Associated Press journalists Julie Pace and Darlene Superville. The book details the life of Jill Biden. Superville covers the White House for the AP; Pace, a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief, is now AP’s…

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