Lawmakers are preparing to vote to reauthorize a powerful government surveillance program, but the House remains deeply divided over warrant provisions.
Lawmakers are preparing to vote this week to reauthorize a powerful program that the intelligence community uses to gather information on foreigners, but theBut privacy hawks across the political spectrum in Congress are dissatisfied with the current bill, unveiled by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday.
The House Judiciary Committee, of which Davidson is a member, has been, on a bipartisan basis, pushing since last year for a competing FISA Section 702 reauthorization bill that would include the controversial warrant requirements. Concerns about Section 702, and government spy powers in general, have been a source of controversy in recent years after the DOJ inspector general found in 2019 that the FBI submitted multiple misleading surveillance applications to the FISA court to establish probable cause so that it could spy on then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The high-profile violations generated worries about surveillance abuse, though they occurred through a different provision of FISA than Section 702.
Johnson’s role in the matter has outraged those pushing for warrants. The speaker published a “Dear Colleague” letter on Friday announcing that the House would be voting on the new bill, but he did not take a position on warrants. Intelligence Committee member Rep. Darin LaHood , a former federal terrorism prosecutor who was inappropriately spied on through FISA in 2019, said in a phone interview that his committee supports the new bill.that he said would not only prevent the Carter Page missteps but would also add numerous criminal penalties for FBI agents who misuse Section 702 tools, as well as drastically limit the number of agents who have access to them.
He said the committee planned to highlight a slate of prominent Republicans this week who have worked in the national security arena who are also against warrant requirements, including Mike Pompeo, John Ratcliffe, Devin Nunes, Robert O’Brien, and Kash Patel.
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